| cell | sell |
| serial | cereal |
| dear | deer |
| main | mane |
| waist | waste |
| steel | steal |
| knight | night |
| hare | hair |
| stair | stare |
| aloud | allowed |
To investigate words that have common letter strings but different pronunciations.
| ight | ear | oo | ough | ie | our |
| right | pear | book | bough | lie | armour |
| fight | bear | boot | cough | pie | colour |
| light | rear | cook | dough | fried | favour |
| eight | beard | foot | enough | niece | neighbour |
| weight | wear | hood | bought | field | hour |
| height | yearn | mood | thought | shield | flour |
| tight |
clear |
soot | sought | thieves | your |