Vowel digraph

A vowel digraph is a digraph vowel phonogram that represents a vowel sound.

As there are 5 English vowel letters, there are 5² = 25 possible vowel digraphs, though some combinations are not used. With Magic E there are an additional split vowel digraphs.

English has two types of vowel digraph; unsplit vowel digraphs and split vowel digraphs.

	Second letter
First letter	A	E	I	O	U
A	⟨aa⟩ e.g. “baa”	⟨ae⟩ e.g. “aero"	⟨ai⟩ e.g. "rain"	⟨ao⟩ e.g. "pharaoh"	⟨au⟩ e.g. “aunt"
E	⟨ea⟩ e.g. “bear"	⟨ee⟩ e.g. “feed"	⟨ei⟩ e.g. "veil"	⟨eo⟩ e.g. "leopard"	⟨eu⟩ e.g. “feud.”
I	⟨ia⟩ e.g. “facia”	⟨ie⟩ e.g. "tie"	⟨ii⟩ e.g. "shiitake"	⟨io⟩ e.g. "idiom"	⟨iu⟩ e.g. "medium"
O	⟨oa⟩ e.g. "hoard"	⟨oe⟩ e.g. "oboe"	⟨oi⟩ e.g. “boil"	⟨oo⟩ e.g. “food"	⟨ou⟩ e.g. “doubt"
U	n/a	⟨ue⟩ e.g. “blue"	⟨ui⟩ e.g. "fruit"	n/a	n/a