Vowel Sounds Word Filter: British English
British English has 21 vowel sounds: 13 single vowels (monophthongs) and 8 double vowels (diphthongs). Tap any sound below and only the words containing that sound will remain.
More about British English vowels
Each word is tagged with every vowel sound it contains, so a word like window appears under both /ɪ/ and /əʊ/.
The phoneme list also includes /i/, the so-called happY vowel, which appears in modern dictionaries for the unstressed final sound in words like happy, coffee and city. It sits between /iː/ and /ɪ/ in quality and is shorter than both.
See our US Phoneme filter and our handy UK Minimal Pairs Filter.
Single vowels
Double vowels
🔊 Tap any word to hear its pronunciation.
party
afternoon
after
answer
father
garden
aunt
bath
car
dance
fast
glass
half
heart
large
laugh
park
start
carry
family
taxi
jacket
apple
camera
happen
matter
bag
black
cat
catch
hand
man
map
plan
stand
Friday
idea
island
quiet
buy
child
drive
five
high
life
light
night
smile
time
try
white
why
mountain
flower
shower
brown
cloud
crowd
down
house
loud
mouth
now
out
proud
round
sound
town
many
ready
engineer
tennis
yellow
breakfast
letter
seven
weather
bed
bread
dress
egg
friend
head
pen
red
when
area
airport
careful
parents
air
bear
care
chair
hair
pair
share
square
there
wear
where
baby
paper
station
table
cake
change
day
eight
game
great
late
name
place
play
rain
train
Thursday
dirty
early
journey
person
bird
burn
church
girl
heard
learn
nurse
shirt
third
turn
word
work
world
happy
repair
mistake
busy
city
pretty
believe
enjoy
window
cinema
listen
sister
winter
big
build
fish
gym
kitchen
milk
minute
ship
sit
six
village
serious
really
zero
theatre
beer
cheer
clear
deer
ear
fear
here
near
year
weekend
easy
evening
people
season
teacher
cheese
dream
eat
green
key
meat
please
see
sheep
speak
tree
week
body
coffee
sorry
office
orange
pocket
holiday
bottle
chocolate
doctor
problem
clock
dog
hot
job
shop
stop
wash
watch
wrong
noisy
toilet
boil
boy
choice
coin
join
noise
oil
point
voice
story
morning
August
autumn
daughter
water
ball
born
caught
door
draw
four
more
short
small
thought
walk
warm
hotel
only
nobody
moment
open
sofa
boat
both
coat
cold
grow
home
hope
know
phone
photo
road
show
snow
banana
arrive
tonight
about
allow
again
potato
today
machine
police
tomorrow
avoid
mature
computer
cookie
football
butcher
cushion
sugar
woman
book
could
foot
full
good
look
pull
push
put
wood
would
curious
jury
during
tourist
Europe
plural
cure
pure
sure
tour
umbrella
upstairs
Monday
country
funny
hungry
money
brother
husband
mother
summer
uncle
blood
bus
cup
jump
love
lunch
month
run
sun
young
Tuesday
movie
music
blue
food
fruit
group
juice
June
moon
school
shoe
soup
spoon
through
two
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