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Vowel digraph
From Teflpedia
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 |