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Phonogram Words

Phonograms

Phonograms are exceptions to the pure phonetic words.
Here are word lists that contain phonogram words.
(4 and 5 year old child can handle double consonants, such as ck, ss, ff, and so on. Also, ing words can be introduced. You can justify introducing these words if the words are a part of your child's environment.)

-ing- words

  • king
  • ring
  • fling
  • bring
  • sing
  • wing
  • fling
  • spring
  • sling
  • bring
  • swing

-ll-

  • hall
  • wall
  • mall
  • bell
  • dell
  • fell
  • well
  • tell
  • sell
  • drill
  • ill
  • will
  • bill
  • sill
  • till
  • fill
  • hill
  • mill
  • still
  • grill
  • pill
  • doll
  • dull
  • lull
  • gull
  • smell
  • swell
  • spell
  • dwell

Challenge Words

  • skull

-ff-

  • off
  • huff
  • ruff
  • puff
  • muff
  • gruff
  • fluff
  • stuff
  • muffin
  • scruff
  • cliff
  • stiff

Extra Challenge Words

  • button
  • cotton
  • turret
  • happen
  • mutton
  • fossil
  • rotten
  • squirrel
  • ribbon
  • fizz
  • carrot
  • bottom
  • tennis
  • kennel
  • kitten
  • traffic
  • blossom
  • summer
  • address
  • buzz
  • bonnet
  • attic
  • mitten
  • rabbit
  • banana
  • bands

-silent e and long a-

  • gate
  • late
  • cake
  • rake
  • drake
  • spade
  • snake
  • ape
  • plate
  • slate
  • lake
  • cape
  • name
  • made
  • wake
  • lame
  • bake
  • lane
  • tame
  • tape
  • take
  • grate
  • flame
  • fate
  • maze
  • slave
  • cable
  • blaze
  • blame
  • pale
  • make
  • raven
  • label
  • brave
  • stake
  • wade
  • ate
  • mane
  • scrape
  • grave
  • trade
  • came
  • save
  • babe
  • fluke
  • safe
  • rave
  • scale
  • same
  • cane
  • fade
  • pave
  • stale
  • grape
  • Jane
  • James

Challenge Words

  • lemonade

-ai- (long a)

  • sail
  • mail
  • nail
  • rail
  • pail
  • tail
  • maid
  • rain
  • snail
  • train
  • paint
  • laid
  • raid
  • aim
  • brain
  • trail
  • strain
  • sprain
  • waist
  • fail
  • wail
  • saint
  • wait
  • grain
  • faint
  • taint
  • gain
  • drain
  • bail
  • bait
  • pain
  • gait
  • stain
  • again (Queen's English)
  • afraid
  • explain
  • claim
  • frail

Challenge Words

  • railing
  • contain
  • obtain
  • quaint
  • maiden
  • maintain
  • Spain

-ay-(long a)

  • jay
  • ray
  • bay
  • hay
  • may
  • day
  • say
  • lay
  • pay
  • way
  • away
  • tray
  • play
  • stay
  • spray
  • clap
  • bray
  • fray
  • pray
  • gray
  • sway
  • clay

Challenge Words

  • crayon
  • payment
  • display
  • delay
  • relay
  • array
  • essay
  • midday
  • decay
  • dismay
  • astray
  • playing
  • repay
  • Sunday

-ea-(long e)

  • pea
  • eat
  • seal
  • leaf
  • bean
  • seat
  • bead
  • beam
  • team
  • stream
  • break
  • neat
  • cream
  • lean
  • reap
  • speak
  • read
  • dream
  • steam
  • clean
  • meal
  • beast
  • yeast
  • seam
  • mean
  • veal
  • leak
  • leap
  • feat
  • peat
  • plea
  • least
  • treat
  • beat
  • east
  • feast
  • bleat
  • creak
  • heal
  • beam

Challenge Words

  • teapot
  • peacock
  • season
  • scream
  • squeak
  • squeal
  • sea
  • weak

-ee-(long e)

  • eel
  • bee
  • fee
  • tee
  • see
  • wee
  • tree
  • reel
  • sweet
  • sweep
  • street
  • feet
  • green
  • seeds
  • heel
  • reed
  • peel
  • seem
  • been
  • deep
  • peep
  • seed
  • seen
  • creep
  • steep
  • weed
  • sleep
  • preen
  • keep
  • greed
  • deed
  • feel
  • bleed
  • meet
  • tweed
  • need
  • keel
  • keen
  • heed
  • deem
  • sleet
  • weep

Challenge Words

  • see
  • toffee
  • queen
  • week
  • creed
  • coffee
  • sixteen
  • seventeen
  • nineteen
  • fifteen

-ie-(long e)

  • field
  • yield
  • fiend
  • priest
  • brief
  • grief

-ey-(long e)

  • key
  • abbey
  • alley
  • valley
  • jockey
  • hockey
  • donkey

-y-(long e)

  • teddy
  • putty
  • very
  • ugly
  • holly
  • dolly
  • entry
  • curry
  • body
  • candy
  • inky
  • merry
  • sadly
  • bunny
  • sorry
  • witty
  • rusty
  • crusty
  • ditty
  • dirty
  • bumpy
  • softly
  • penny
  • golly
  • happy
  • fifty
  • sunny
  • berry
  • petty
  • sandy
  • sixty
  • seventy
  • pity
  • jolly
  • sentry
  • pansy
  • empty

Challenge words

  • Betty
  • Bobby
  • Tommy
  • Molly
  • Polly
  • daddy
  • merrily
  • puppy

-i-(short i)

  • -i-(short i)
  • mind
  • kind
  • find
  • pint
  • mild
  • wild
  • rind
  • blind
  • grind
  • wind

Challenge words

  • unkind

-i-e (silent e, long i)

  • tie
  • lie
  • vie
  • die
  • pie
  • tied
  • lied
  • pile

Challenge words

  • flies
  • cries
  • cried
  • tried
  • magpie
  • fries
  • fried
  • dries
  • spied
  • relief

-igh-

  • nigh
  • sigh
  • high
  • fight
  • sight
  • night
  • light
  • flight
  • slight
  • fright
  • blight
  • might
  • right
  • tight
  • bright

Challenge Words

  • alight
  • plight
  • lighten
  • frighten
  • brighten
  • lighting
  • midnight
  • delight

-y (long i)


  • by
  • my
  • dry
  • cry
  • fry
  • sty
  • fly
  • try
  • spy
  • pry
  • sky
  • ply

Challenge Words

  • reply
  • typist
  • apply
  • trying
  • defy
  • cypress
  • ally
  • supply
  • deny
  • satisfy
  • multiply
  • occupy
  • qualify

-o-e (long o and silent e)

  • owe
  • hole
  • pole
  • mole
  • hope
  • dope
  • bone
  • cone
  • tone
  • robe
  • joke
  • poke
  • vote
  • dote
  • note
  • home
  • come
  • cove
  • wove
  • rove
  • code
  • mode
  • rode
  • lode
  • dome
  • Rome
  • tome
  • mope

Challenge Words

  • stone
  • stove
  • clove
  • globe
  • smoke
  • slope
  • spoke
  • stole
  • trove
  • strove
  • grove
  • elope

-oa-(long o)

  • oak
  • loan
  • Joan
  • roan
  • coat
  • boat
  • goat
  • soap
  • coal
  • foal
  • toad
  • loaf
  • road
  • load
  • moat
  • roast
  • coast
  • boast
  • soak
  • goal
  • oats
  • roan
  • goad
  • roam
  • loam
  • foam
  • coax

Challenge Words

  • stoat
  • cloak
  • groan
  • croak
  • gloat
  • soapsuds

-o-(long o)

  • old
  • fold
  • roll
  • so
  • cold
  • hold
  • stroll
  • oval
  • go
  • bold
  • sold
  • post
  • no
  • sold
  • ago
  • host
  • gold
  • scold
  • told
  • bolt
  • colt
  • folk
  • both

Challenge Words

  • Mexico
  • golden
  • swollen

-ow-(long o)

  • low
  • crow
  • bow
  • bowl
  • pillow
  • window
  • yellow
  • marrow
  • snow
  • sparrow
  • elbow
  • arrow
  • barrow
  • blow
  • mow
  • own
  • slow
  • glow
  • grow
  • flow
  • row
  • fellow
  • hollow
  • willow
  • tow
  • grown
  • mellow
  • stow
  • follow
  • flown
  • fallow
  • bellow
  • morrow
  • widow
  • narrow
  • barrow
  • sorrow

-u...e-

  • rule
  • cube
  • tune
  • mule
  • duke
  • flute
  • tube
  • rude
  • dupe
  • lute
  • dune
  • brute
  • use
  • mute
  • yule
  • rune
  • jute
  • ruse
  • fume
  • muse
  • fuse

Challenge Words

  • volume
  • dispute
  • excuse
  • Luke
  • June
  • amuse
  • confuse
  • costume
  • astute

-ew-

  • new
  • few
  • pew
  • dew
  • stew
  • crew
  • strew
  • screw
  • drew
  • grew
  • blew
  • brew
  • flew

Challenge Words

  • Andrew
  • jewel
  • mews
  • news

-ue-

  • hue
  • glue
  • blue
  • true
  • due
  • flue
  • clue
  • value
  • duel

Challenge Words

  • issue
  • subdue
  • rescue
  • continue

-ck-(you can introduce these as phonetic words with "a different spelling")

  • duck
  • sock
  • rock
  • tack
  • sack
  • lock
  • stick
  • rock
  • deck
  • sick
  • tuck
  • back
  • lick
  • neck
  • kick
  • peck
  • rack
  • pack
  • mock
  • wick
  • suck
  • Rick
  • luck
  • lack
  • muck
  • ticket
  • packet
  • wicket

Challenge Words

  • track
  • cricket
  • block
  • racket
  • clock
  • brick
  • trick
  • smack
  • prick
  • crack
  • stack
  • stuck
  • locket
  • stock
  • smock
  • speck
  • truck

-sh-

  • shot
  • ship
  • shop
  • fish
  • dish
  • shed
  • shell
  • brush
  • radish
  • ask
  • shelf
  • shrimp
  • shelf
  • wish
  • bush
  • shut
  • wish
  • splash
  • blush
  • crash
  • rush
  • smash
  • rash
  • flash
  • crush
  • shod
  • shrub
  • sash
  • hush
  • gash
  • shred
  • shin
  • sham
  • shun
  • shrill
  • rubbish
  • cash
  • slush
  • mesh
  • flush
  • vanish
  • banish
  • finish

-qu-

  • quit
  • quest
  • request
  • quell
  • quilt
  • liquid
  • equip
  • quill
  • banquet
  • conquest

-th-

  • them
  • then
  • that
  • thin
  • throb
  • think
  • thud
  • thump
  • broth
  • moth
  • smith
  • thank
  • cloth
  • thrill
  • thing
  • width
  • depth
  • froth
  • sixth
  • tenth
  • method
  • thrust
  • theft
  • fifth
  • seventh

-ea-

  • lead
  • head
  • deaf
  • read
  • deaf
  • bread
  • heaven
  • tread
  • spread
  • dread
  • sweat
  • dealt
  • meant
  • instead
  • dreadful
  • bedstead
  • peasant
  • realm
  • pleasant

-le-

  • apple
  • little
  • puzzle
  • bottle
  • candle
  • cattle
  • kettle
  • bubble
  • bundle
  • rattle
  • saddle
  • handle
  • mangle
  • nettle
  • paddle
  • sizzle
  • middle
  • puddle
  • muddle
  • cuddle
  • brittle
  • tremble
  • bramble
  • grumble
  • humble
  • crumble
  • nestle
  • riddle
  • hustle
  • nozzle
  • spindle
  • jostle
  • muzzle
  • gristle
  • pebble
  • jungle
  • simple
  • scribble
  • rumble
  • bristle
  • mumble
  • single
  • possible
  • responsible
  • rectangle

-o-

  • love
  • sponge
  • above
  • come
  • glove
  • son
  • won
  • ton
  • London
  • Monday
  • dove
  • another
  • monk
  • front
  • other
  • month
  • onion
  • monkey
  • wonder
  • mother

-er-

  • her
  • fern
  • term
  • pert
  • verb
  • herd
  • term
  • jerk
  • ever
  • butter
  • slipper
  • duster
  • hammer
  • spanner
  • ladder
  • dagger
  • hamper
  • dinner
  • robber
  • letter
  • cobbler
  • lantern
  • sister
  • clever
  • clatter
  • bitter
  • winter
  • mister
  • matter
  • otter
  • batter
  • silver
  • stern
  • gutter
  • fatter
  • offer
  • mutter
  • never
  • bladder
  • udder
  • perhaps
  • perfect
  • person
  • serpent
  • desert

-ir-

  • girl
  • dirt
  • bird
  • fir
  • sir
  • skirt
  • first
  • stir
  • firm
  • flirt
  • smirk
  • swirl
  • squirm
  • affirm
  • twirl
  • squirt
  • confirm

-ur-

  • fur
  • cur
  • burn
  • curl
  • turn
  • hurt
  • furl
  • surf
  • purr
  • burst
  • burr
  • spur
  • turf
  • occur
  • curt
  • slur
  • scurf
  • suburb
  • recur
  • disturb
  • murmur
  • burden
  • furlong
  • turnip
  • absurd

-or-

  • corn
  • born
  • cord
  • cork
  • ford
  • fork
  • fort
  • for
  • horn
  • lord
  • lorn
  • forlorn
  • mourn
  • mourning
  • port
  • pork
  • sort
  • torn
  • inform
  • factor
  • tractor
  • import
  • distort
  • import
  • important

-ch-

  • rich
  • itch
  • such
  • much
  • Dutch
  • hutch
  • chap
  • chill
  • latch
  • match
  • lunch
  • bunch
  • witch
  • switch
  • chip
  • crutch
  • vetch
  • chest
  • children
  • hatchet
  • ditch
  • chop
  • quench
  • finch
  • catch
  • fetch
  • bench
  • chapel
  • scratch
  • batch
  • chum
  • catch
  • wretch
  • drench
  • trench
  • notch
  • hitch
  • stretch
  • pitch
  • hatch
  • patch
  • chink
  • chestnut
  • satchel
  • clutch
  • splotch
  • duchess
  • French

-ch-

  • echo
  • ache
  • anchor
  • chorus
  • architect
  • monarch
  • chemical
  • choir

-ow-

  • bow
  • now
  • row
  • cow
  • sow
  • brown
  • owl
  • crown
  • towel
  • clown
  • town
  • gown
  • fowl
  • trowel
  • vowel
  • crowd
  • down
  • howl
  • drown
  • growl
  • frown
  • scowl
  • prowl
  • allow

-ou-

  • out
  • loud
  • pout
  • lout
  • bout
  • noun
  • bound
  • mount
  • aloud
  • pound
  • hound
  • mound
  • cloud
  • spout
  • trout
  • count
  • round
  • found
  • countless
  • accounts
  • sound
  • proud
  • about
  • around
  • amount
  • ground
  • snout
  • stout
  • sprout

-al-

  • salt
  • talk
  • walk
  • halt
  • malt
  • stalk
  • bald
  • walnut
  • caldron
  • almost

-all-

  • ball
  • wall
  • fall
  • pall
  • tall
  • call
  • all
  • hall
  • small
  • stall
  • squall

-oi-

  • oil
  • soil
  • boil
  • foil
  • toil
  • coil
  • join
  • broil
  • avoid
  • poison
  • spoil
  • point
  • joint
  • coin
  • moist
  • hoist
  • joist
  • ointment
  • appoint
  • disappoint

-oy-

  • joy
  • boy
  • toy
  • coy
  • alloy
  • employ
  • annoy
  • royal
  • loyal
  • ahoy
  • destroy

-soft c-

  • cell
  • civil
  • princess
  • pencil
  • acid
  • cancel
  • fence
  • pence
  • prince
  • office
  • since
  • scent
  • mince
  • quince
  • dunce
  • hence
  • absence
  • sentence
  • justice
  • accept
  • except
  • excellent
  • success
  • accident
  • innocent

-soft g-

  • gem
  • fringe
  • bridge
  • judge
  • hedge
  • sledge
  • porridge
  • dodge
  • edge
  • plunge
  • fidget
  • college
  • fudge
  • grudge
  • smudge
  • lodge
  • cringe
  • wedge
  • tinge
  • regiment
  • pledge
  • hinge
  • lunge
  • smudge
  • dredge
  • nudge
  • magic

-tion-

  • addition
  • multiplication
  • subtraction
  • action
  • fraction
  • ration
  • attention
  • mention
  • affection
  • suction
  • condition
  • expedition
  • construction
  • question
  • section
  • function
  • fiction
  • faction
  • diction
  • friction
  • distinction
  • option
  • infection
  • intention

-sion-

  • division
  • vision
  • tension
  • mansion
  • mission
  • pension
  • session
  • extension
  • passion
  • discussion
  • admission
  • compassion
  • provision
  • invasion

-oo-

  • book
  • good
  • cook
  • look
  • foot
  • nook
  • rook
  • hook
  • took
  • wood
  • stood
  • hood
  • brook
  • crook
  • wool
  • footman

-a-

  • ask
  • raft
  • mast
  • fast
  • cask
  • task
  • glass
  • staff
  • last
  • plant
  • past
  • brass
  • craft
  • class
  • mask
  • cast
  • grass
  • half
  • slant
  • pass
  • fasten
  • basket
  • vast
  • command
  • delta
  • demand
  • extra
  • umbrella
  • Africa
  • Canada

-ar-

  • ark
  • car
  • jar
  • far
  • tar
  • bar
  • mar
  • star
  • tart
  • barn
  • card
  • scarf
  • harp
  • lark
  • dart
  • cart
  • dark
  • scar
  • yard
  • park
  • mark
  • part
  • bark
  • hard
  • harm
  • start
  • harvest
  • carpet
  • hark
  • spark
  • darkness
  • garden
  • smart
  • parting
  • arctic
  • darn
  • art
  • artist
  • barbed
  • regard
  • marvel
  • garment
  • remark
  • garland
  • darling
  • custard
  • beggar
  • target
  • vicar
  • market

-silent b-

  • park
  • lamb
  • limb
  • bomb
  • numb
  • dumb
  • crumb
  • debt
  • jamb
  • debt
  • plumbing

-silent d-

  • ledge
  • judge
  • hedge
  • wedge
  • grudge
  • badge
  • trudge
  • bridge
  • midge
  • porridge

-silent g-

  • sign
  • gnu
  • gnome
  • gnaw
  • gnarl
  • gnash
  • honest
  • feign
  • reign
  • sigh
  • deign

-silent h-

  • which
  • while
  • when
  • what
  • whip
  • whiz
  • whim
  • whisk
  • whist
  • whiff
  • wheel
  • whack
  • whitsun
  • white
  • whale
  • whine
  • wheat
  • whisper
  • wheeze
  • honor or honour
  • hour
  • heir
  • whit
  • whistle

-silent k-

  • knee
  • knew
  • knob
  • knot
  • knit
  • knelt
  • knoll
  • knack
  • knock
  • knife
  • knowledge
  • kneel
  • know
  • knead
  • knave
  • knapsack
  • knotty
  • knuckle
  • knight

-silent t-

  • often
  • fasten
  • listen
  • castle
  • gristle
  • thistle
  • jostle
  • wrestle
  • rustle
  • bustle

-silent w-

  • wren
  • wrap
  • wreck
  • wrist
  • wrong
  • writ
  • wrung
  • wrath
  • wreak
  • wreath
  • wrench
  • write
  • wretch
  • wrote
  • sword
  • answer
  • wrapper

-ar-

  • war
  • wart
  • warn
  • warp
  • warn
  • wardrobe
  • toward
  • warbled
  • quart
  • awkward
  • warder
  • swarm
  • reward

-au-

  • haul
  • Paul
  • fault
  • haunted
  • fraud
  • gaunt
  • vault
  • taunt
  • daunt
  • daub
  • exhaust

-aw-

  • saw
  • paw
  • law
  • jaw
  • caw
  • awl
  • raw
  • straw
  • fawn
  • pawn
  • lawn
  • claw
  • hawk
  • draw
  • yawn
  • drawn
  • brawl
  • crawl
  • awful
  • awning
  • brawn
  • dawn
  • drawl
  • prawn

-oo-

  • zoo
  • food
  • boot
  • roof
  • moon
  • pool
  • loop
  • hoop
  • spoon
  • stool
  • loom
  • broom
  • balloon
  • tool
  • cool
  • stoop
  • noon
  • mood
  • roost
  • soon
  • fool
  • proof
  • hoof
  • boon

-ture-

  • picture
  • lecture
  • fracture
  • adventure
  • culture
  • fixture
  • disfigure
  • posture
  • scripture
  • structure
  • texture
  • signature

-are-

  • hare
  • bare
  • mare
  • ware
  • fare
  • rare
  • care
  • dare
  • compare
  • Clare
  • prepare
  • stare
  • flare
  • spare
  • blare
  • farewell
  • welfare
  • square

-air-

  • air
  • pair
  • lair
  • fair
  • hair
  • despair
  • stair
  • affair
  • unfair

Comments

Eureka!Montessori

posted at 9:15 p.m. on March 15, 2010

THANK YOU! This list is great. I have a very good book of phonograms from my training but yours has a few extras in many categories. Really fun to have. My 1st, 2nd and 3rd graders will benefit tomorrow.

Susan

posted at 10:37 p.m. on July 6, 2010

Thanks so much this is great!

venkatyuvaraj

posted at 6:44 p.m. on November 10, 2010

wonderful...............thanks a lot..........hats off for the good job..........

Afsheen

posted at 6:42 a.m. on March 11, 2011

you have done a wonderful job! It has saved my time.

RicardoVerdi

posted at 1:48 p.m. on June 10, 2011

Great stuff, thanks. There seems to be an error under -ay, it has the word clap along with the others

RicardoVerdi

posted at 2:24 p.m. on June 10, 2011

I just noticed too that for oa, roan is in it twice, also I think coal, goal, foal are a bit different on sound to the others

julia

posted at 3:52 p.m. on October 19, 2011

do guys have a word for ui

nanda

posted at 10:40 a.m. on November 29, 2011

Hi, Are you sure these could be introduced at theage 5? Thanks --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------If your child understands the lessons easily at age 5 you can introduce "ck" "ss" "ff" and so on. The English language tends to be one of exceptions to the rule and it is okay to introduce this concept gradually. Puzzle words, such as," the", "there", are another example of exceptions.

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