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ph, gh, -ough, eigh words

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The words

  • phone
  • graph
  • laugh
  • tough
  • eight
  • weigh
  • photo
  • dolphin
  • elephant
  • rough
  • cough
  • sleigh
  • freight
  • alphabet
  • trophy
  • bought
  • dough
  • ought
  • laughter
  • nephew
  • phrase
  • sphere
  • headphones
  • pharmacy
  • physical
  • graphic
  • eighteen
  • eighty
  • neighborhood
  • thorough
  • drought
  • trough
  • sought

Tricky words to learn by heart

These come up alongside this pattern but don't follow it.

  • imagine
  • although
  • height

In a sentence

  • phone: The little owl sends a message on its magic phone.
  • graph: The dragon drew a graph of how many gems it found.
  • laugh: The happy dragon let out a big laugh at the joke.
  • tough: The brave knight wore tough armor that could not break.
  • eight: The brave knight counted eight shiny stars.
  • weigh: The wizard will weigh the magic stone on the scale.

Mistakes to watch for

For grown-ups helping at home: these are the kinds of slips this pattern tends to bring.

WordOften written as
phonefohn, foan
graphgraf, grafe
laughlafe, lahf
toughtufe, togh
eighteyght, egiht

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