Vowels: oo sound /u/

Listen to the oo sound

How to pronounce the oo sound

To create the oo sound, the lips are pulled into a tense, small circle. In addition, the back of the tongue is raised to a high position and sides of the tongue may touch the top teeth at the back of the mouth.

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Common oo sound spellings

spelling	example		other pronunciations for spelling
oo	soon food school		other u (good)
u_e (VCe)	rude intrude salute		long u (cute)
ue[1]	clue true glue		long u (fuel)
ew	drew chew flew		long u (few)

[1] ue spelling
The -ue spelling is silent when it occurs at the end of a word and follows the letters g, ng, or q (examples include the words fatigue, tongue, and unique). An exception is the word argue, which ends in a long u sound.

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The oo sound sound in suffixes

none

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Non-phonetic oo sound words
The oo sound is underlined in the following words:
through two who do move fruit shoe movie

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