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Vowel Sounds
/ɔ/- /ɔy/

Sound-Spelling Pattern

  /ɔ/ /ɔy/
al all wall
chalk talk walk
salt bald
almost always
 
au Austria author autumn laundry  
aw lawn awful  
oi = oy   boil soil toil
boy soy toy
loyal royal
off
oft
off office
often soften
 
oss
ost
boss across
cost lost
 
ong long song wrong  
augh fraught caught taught
daughter slaughter
haughty naughty
 
ough bought brought fought sought thought
cough trough
ought to
 
o +/ər/ born corn shore
ore chore more
Homophones
for fore four
core corps
war wore