Minimal Pairs ɒ and əʊ
Minimal Pairs /ɒ/ and /əʊ/
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Below are lists of words that vary only by one having the vowel sound /ɒ/ and the other the vowel sound /əʊ/. You can use this to practice the sounds or as a list of words to be careful to pronounce properly.
Useful Tip
/ɒ/ is a short single sound made without the mouth moving. /əʊ/ is a diphthong -- a longer sound made of two sounds -- meaning that the mouth moves during production of the sound.
Elementary
- not note
- want won’t
Pre-Intermediate
- got goat
- hop hope
- on own
Intermediate
- cost coast
- non known
- odd owed
- rod road
- rot wrote
- sop soap
- stock stoke
- tossed toast
- wok woke
Upper-Intermediate
- block bloke
- bond boned
- bossed boast
- clock cloak
- cock coke
- cod code
- col coal
- cop cope
- god goad
- jock joke
- mod mode
- pop pope
- rob robe
- rod rode
- ROM roam
- shod showed
- smock smoke
- sock soak
- sod sewed
Advanced
- blot bloat
- bod bode
- bonze bones
- chock choke
- cocks coax
- con cone
- crock croak
- doss dose
- dot dote
- foggy fogey
- glob globe
- hod hoed
- lob lobe
- lop lope
- mod mowed
- mop mope
- mot mote
- nod node
- odd ode
- rot rote
- slop slope
- sod sowed
- tock toke
- tod toad
- tot tote
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