OY (toy) Sound Word List
By Rodney Everson
The /oy/ sound is one of four sounds you can think of as beginning with the letter “o”. The four sounds are /ow/ (cow), /oy/ (toy), /oo/ (zoo), and /oul/ (would).
Of the 7,000 words in the database constructed from a popular children’s dictionary, 23 of them are one-syllable words in which the vowel sound is /oy/. The only two spellings of the /oy/ sound are "oy" and "oi".
As the list illustrates, the "oi" spelling is not found at the end of words, so if the word ends in the /oy/ sound it has the "oy" spelling. Otherwise, it's the "oi" spelling. Furthermore, neither the "oi" nor the "oy" spelling represent any sounds other than the /oy/ sound, making this is a relatively simple sound to both read and spell.
Comprehensive Word Lists
Features over 100 word lists built from 7,000 words input from a children's dictionary. Lists are organized by vowel and consonant sounds and cover most common spellings. Useful in the classroom for building curriculum aids such as short stories that emphasize specific sounds and spellings. Multisyllable words are also included, chunked according to the method taught in the OnTrack Reading Advanced Code Phonics Workbook.