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Spelling new words like though, thought, through, throughout, thorough and tough doesn’t have to be boring. Students can have fun spelling with our word lists of over 100 endings and guide on syllables, onset, rime and rhyme in many engaging ways. This simple spelling guide includes short explanations of the …

AIN is a rime in the English language. There are many words that begin with an onset made up of one consonant as in ‘gain’ or blends from 2 to 5 consonants, and then end with the rime AIN as in ‘grain’, ‘sprain’, ‘contain’ and ‘mountain’. Having a word list …

EIGH is a 4-letter grapheme that has two different sounds in words. EIGH is called a 4-letter grapheme because it represents one sound as in ‘weigh’ which sounds like the letter A and ‘height’ which sounds like the letter I. The two word lists below contain words with EIGH in …

IE ending is found in many words in the English language. Some IE ending words are root words as in ‘tie’ and ‘movie’. Others are morphed words that are part of a word family as in ‘hottie’ from ‘hot’ and ‘cutie’ from ‘cute’. Having a word list with IE ending …

KEY ending is found in many words in the English language. Words with 2 syllables have KEY ending in the second part of the word as in ‘monkey’. Having a word list with KEY ending makes learning to spell these words and their meanings easier. The word list below contains …