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⟨ere⟩
From Teflpedia
⟨ere⟩ is a vowel trigraph that occurs in English.
It can be considered a special case of ⟨e-e⟩.
This puts words into the ɴᴇᴀʀ lexical set, pronounced with the ɴᴇᴀʀ vowel phoneme. Examples include adhere, sphere, severe, here.
However, some sightwords are in the ꜱǫᴜᴀʀᴇ lexical set; there, where. Plus French-derived words ampere, pere, frere (in French these have grave accents; ampère, frère, père). Werewolf.
The sightword and preterite of be, were is typically pronounced with the ɴᴜʀꜱᴇ vowel phoneme.
