VowelsouDifficulty: A2
OU is a spelling family with several productive pronunciations. Use the word and its family to predict the sound.
Examples
out /aʊ/ · soup /uː/ · young /ʌ/ · could /ʊ/ · four /ɔr/ (US)
Other pronunciations and limits
No single sound covers all common OU words.
Example sentence
The young boy could find some soup.