Decoding and spelling exercises: "o" adjacent to "m", "n", "v" or "w"

The letter O has three main pronunciations when it is adjacent to M, N, V or W, as in cover, as in poverty and as in over.

As /ɒ/
See main article IPA phoneme /ɒ/.


 * O adjacent to "m": bomb, compact (adj., n.), economy, model, modern, promise, prompt
 * O adjacent to "m" and "n": economic
 * O adjacent to "m" and "v": vomit
 * O adjacent to "m" and "w": wombat
 * O adjacent to "n": beyond, bond, contact, contract (n.), on, response, technology, upon
 * O adjacent to "n" and "v": novel
 * O adjacent to "n" and "w": wonton
 * O adjacent to "v": involve, poverty, volcano, volume, volunteer

As /ɒ/ or /ɔː/
 * along, gone, long

As /ʌ/
See main article IPA phoneme /ʌ/.

As /əʊ/
See main article IPA phoneme /əʊ/.


 * O adjacent to "m": emotion, mobile, moment, most, motivate, promote, promotion, smoke
 * O adjacent to "n": alone, bone, don't, no, noble, notable, notion, phone, stone, won't, zone
 * O adjacent to "v": dove (past tense of dive), vote
 * O adjacent to "w": awoke, wove, woven

As /uː/

 * tomb, move, movie, two, womb

As /ʊ/

 * wolf, woman

Spelling anomaly

 * As /ɪ/: women

"Cor"
In this section we will see words spelled with "Cor", where C is "m", "n", "v" or "w".

As /ɔː/

 * O adjacent to "m": more, morning
 * O adjacent to "n": ignore, normal, north
 * O adjacent to "v": divorce
 * O adjacent to "w": swore, sworn, wore, worn

As /ɒ, ɑː/

 * tomorrow

As /ɒ, ɔː/

 * minority, moral

As /ɜː/

 * word, work, worm, worse, worship, worst, worth

As /ʌ, ɜː/

 * worry

Variant pronunciations

 * accomplish: /əˈkʌmplɪʃ, əˈkɒmplɪʃ/
 * Coventry /ˈkʌvəntriː, ˈkɒvəntriː/
 * from /frəm, frɒm, frʌm/
 * hover: /ˈhɒvər, ˈhʌvər/
 * monetary: /ˈmɒnɪteriː, ˈmʌnɪtriː/