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⟨oar⟩
From Teflpedia
⟨oar⟩ is a vowel trigraph that occurs in English, consisting of O, A and R.
Words that include this trigraph include boar, hoar, oar, soar, roar, and very few others. Others end in ⟨oard⟩, e.g. cupboard, board, hoard.
This spelling puts words into the ꜰᴏʀᴄᴇ lexical set. Commonly, therefore, they are pronounced with the ɴᴏʀᴛʜ vowel phoneme due to the ɴᴏʀᴛʜ–ꜰᴏʀᴄᴇ merger. English speakers with rhotic accents always pronounce the final R; those with non-rhotic accents pronounce the final R only as linking /r/.
In unstressed syllables, this can be reduced to a 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮ᴀ vowel, e.g. cupboard, starboard, etc.
