Vowel sound /uː/ is pronounced like ‘UUU’ or that final sound in the word “who”.
It has a long and relaxed pronunciation, unlike its shorter version — VOWEL /ʊ/ SOUND.
Some examples of words with vowel /uː/ sound
📒 Most times when the letters (-ew, -ue, -ou) in a word gives an ‘U’ sound, it is often this long vowel /uː/ sound.
| -ew | few stew knew |
| -ue | blue queue continue |
| -oo- | food room school |
| -ou- | you route through |
| -ui- | suit juice recruit |
| u-e | use rude flute |
| -o- | do lose prove |
| -oe- | shoe canoe manoeuvre |
Practice questions on vowel sound /uː/
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