Spelled Like They Sound Words

When words are spelled the way they sound e g slush croak sizzle it is called onomatopoeia.

Spelled like they sound words. Since they are not we. Below are 20 more words that aren t spelled like they sound. Words that sound like the thing they mean.

From the greek onoma name and poiein to make latest addition. This is especially true with many extremely old words that have survived in english since anglo saxon times. It sounds like it ends in m rather than n.

The spelling is a closer resemblance to the pronuncation in those languages. Army my brother joined the army this year. Baby the baby gave a loud wail.

This is not a strong e sound. Along with being. Such a word itself is also called an onomatopoeia.

But like many of the other rules of language even the basics of spelling aren t always reliable. Common onomatopoeias include animal noises such as oink meow or miaow roar and chirp. When the fracture of a weak snow layer causes an upper layer to collapse making a whumpfing sound.

The ones that come immediately to my mind are the words that end in ough such as cough rough tough but sound like they end in f. On the end of a word the most common way to spell the long e sound is with the letter y. It can sometimes sound like a short i.