The long e sound can be represented by 8 different spelling patterns:
For example:
- e – Be
- e_e – Here
- ee – See
- ea – Tea
- ei – Protein
- ie – Piece
- ey – Key
- y – Baby
Table of Contents
Common Ways to Spell the Long E Sound
Vowel Team – E
area | emit | maybe |
be | enunciate | me |
being | equal | meter |
cedar | equator | museum |
demon | equinox | prefix |
depot | even | react |
eclipse | ether | really |
ecology | evening | recent |
edict | evil | recycle |
Egyptian | female | secret |
he | she | |
emission | legal | we |
zebra |
Vowel Team E_E
here |
these |
theme |
gene |
breve |
cede |
accede |
precede |
concede |
concrete |
compete |
complete |
delete |
obsolete |
adhere |
severe |
sincere |
interfere |
persevere |
chinese |
japanese |
Vowel Team EE
bee | flee | peel | sneeze |
beech | fleet | peep | speech |
beep | free | peer | speed |
beer | freed | preen | squeeze |
beet | freeze | queen | steed |
bleed | glee | queer | steel |
breech | greed | reed | steep |
breed | Greek | reek | steer |
breeze | green | reel | street |
cheek | greet | screech | sweep |
cheep | heed | screen | sweet |
creed | heel | see | tee |
creek | Jeep | seed | teem |
creel | jeer | seek | teen |
creed | keel | seem | tree |
creek | keen | seen | treed |
creel | keep | seep | tweed |
creep | knee | seer | tweet |
deed | kneed | sheen | tweeze |
deem | Lee | sheep | wee |
deep | leech | sheet | weed |
deer | leek | skeet | week |
fee | leer | sleek | weep |
feed | meek | sleep | wheel |
feel | meet | sleet | wheeze |
feet | need | sneer |
Vowel Team – EA
Beach | Feast | Pea | Spear |
Bead | Feat | Peach | Squeak |
Beak | Flea | Gleam | Squeal |
Beam | Freak | Glean | Steal |
Bean | Gear | Peak | Treat |
Beast | Heal | Peal | tweak |
Beat | Heap | Peat | Reach |
Bleach | Hear | Plea | Read |
Bleak | Heat | Plead | Steam |
Bleat | Heave | Pleat | Streak |
Breach | Jean | Real | Stream |
Cheap | Knead | Ream | Tea |
Cheat | Leach | Reap | Teach |
Clean | Lead | Rear | Teak |
Clear | Leak | Scream | Teal |
Cleat | Lean | Sea | Team |
Cleave | Leap | Seal | Tear |
Creak | Least | Seam | veal |
Cream | Leave | Sear | weak |
Deal | Meal | Seat | wean |
Dean | Mean | Shear | weave |
Dear | Meat | Sheave | wheat |
Dream | Mear | Smear | year |
Fear | Neat | Speak | yeast |
zeal |
Irregular Vowel Team – IE
achieve |
belief |
believe |
brief |
chief |
field |
grief |
niece |
piece |
priest |
relief |
shield |
siege |
thief |
yield |
Irregular Vowel Team – EI
ceiling |
either |
conceit |
receipt |
deceive |
protein |
caffeine |
Irregular Vowel Team – EY
key |
valley |
money |
monkey |
turkey |
honey |
chimney |
parsley |
Y as a Vowel
any | energy | penny | angry | lady |
baby | every | pretty | army | marry |
body | family | puppy | berry | memory |
bunny | funny | quickly | carry | party |
candy | happy | ready | cherry | penalty |
city | heavy | really | curry | sorry |
copy | lady | sandy | duty | very |
country | many | story | empty | twenty |
daddy | mommy | study | every | thirty |
early | money | sunny | family | very |
easy | only | usually | glory | hungry |
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