Table 1. 90 common words spell the long OO-sound with oo, but
91 words spell it with other letters, in the stem of words and endings.
And in some words oo spells a shorter sound, e.g. ‘good‘ in table 2.
boom | shoot | brood | brutal | bruise | tomb |
boon | smooth | broom | brute | cruise | womb |
boost | snooker | droop | crucial | fruit | |
boot | soon | groom | crude | recruit | shrewd |
choose | soothe | groove | cruel | sluice | |
cool | spoof | proof | frugal | manoeuvre | |
doom | spook | roof | intrude | lose | |
food | spool | room | prune | move | gruesome |
fool | spoon | root | ruby | prove | |
goose | stool | troop | rude | sleuth | |
hoof | stoop | ruined | acoustic | ||
hooligan | swoon | macaroon | rule | bivouac | |
hoop | swoop | maroon | rural | boutique | |
hoot | tool | mushroom | truant | coupon | |
lagoon | tooth | truce | group | ||
mood | whoop | truly | recoup | ||
moon | zoom | bloom | fluent | route | |
moor | gloom | fluid | soup | ||
moot | baboon | loom | fluke | toucan | |
noodle | cartoon | loop | flute | tourist | |
noon | cocoon | loose | glucose | troupe | |
noose | harpoon | loosen | include | wound | |
poodle | pontoon | loot | lubricate | youth | |
pool | ludicrous | ||||
school | balloon | ludo | truth | ||
schooner | saloon | lukewarm | |||
scoop | luminous | ||||
scooter | lunar | ||||
lunatic | |||||
plural | |||||
recluse | |||||
secluded | |||||
plumage | |||||
bamboo | boo | blue | blew | do | |
cockatoo | coo | clue | brew | lasso | |
hullabaloo | goo | flue | flu | crew | to |
igloo | loo | glue | gnu | drew | two |
kangaroo | moo | rue | guru | flew | who |
shampoo | shoo | true | zulu | grew | |
tattoo | too | screw | |||
voodoo | woo | construe | shrew | canoe | |
yahoo | zoo | accrue | slew | shoe | |
strew | |||||
threw | through | ||||
cashew | you |