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E (red) Sound Word List

By Rodney Everson • Updated Jun 7th, 2023

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The /e/ sound, often called the short-e sound, is one of five sounds that form the class of Basic Code vowel sounds. That class generally appears as the middle sound of a three-letter word, or when followed by the letters ck, x, tch, dg, or dge, or in a closed syllable within a longer word, and is spelled with a, e, i, o, or u.

This is a useful list for locating simple words to practice both beginning and ending consonant blends while the vowel sound remains unchanged.

Of the 7,000 words in the database constructed from a popular children’s dictionary, 162 of them are one-syllable words in which the vowel sound is /e/. Among the words in the database, that sound is also represented in 21 one-syllable words by the digraph "ea" and once by the digraph "ai" (in the word said).

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