Long Vowel Words - List of English Long Vowels

What are Long Vowels

English alphabets are divided among consonants and vowels. Vowels are a, e, i, o, and u, whereas the rest of the alphabets are consonants. Long vowels refer to those vowels which are pronounced the same way as the name of the letter is pronounced. These vowels are relatively easier to learn, pronounce, distinguish and read. Also, long vowels are very easier to recognize in words rather than guessing their sound without their use in a word.

The long vowels usually follow a pattern that is the vowel-consonant-e, i.e. late, cake, gate, make, scene, lone, queue, statue, and cue. While you read these words, notice the vowel sound that you make. Let’s have a look at the following examples to equip ourselves better with the long vowels.

Long Vowel Examples

– Long vowel A is pronounced as ay, for example, LATE is pronounced as l-ay-t. Some other examples of long vowel A are, way, pay, rate, mate, raid, fame, etc.

– Long vowel E is pronounced as ee, for example, DELETE is pronounced as di-lee-t. Some other examples of long vowel E are, scene, beam, be, me, etc.

– Long vowel I is pronounced as aii, for example, MITE is pronounced as m-aii-t. Some other examples of long vowel I are, pine, right, fine, shine, I, etc.

– Long vowel O is pronounced as ou, for example, NOTE is pronounced as n-ou-t. Some other examples of long vowel O are, road, sow, tow, lone, etc.

– Long vowel U pronounced as yu, for example, CUTE is pronounced as k-yu-t. Some other examples of long vowel U are, rude, duke, statue, cue, etc.

Words Without Vowels Words With All Vowels

Long A Vowel Words

acorn
apron
alien
agent
basic
data
baby
lady
cable
radio
shaky
paper
label
potato
hazy
maple
table
tomato

a _ e

bake
base
cage
cake
came
cane
cape
case
cave
date
face
fade
fake
fame
gate
gave
hate
lace
lake
lane
late
made
make
male
mane
maze
name
pace
page
rake
rate
safe
take
tale
tape
vane
wade
wage
wake
agent
blade
blame
brace
brake
brave
chase
crane
crate
drape
erase
flake
flame
frame
grade
grape
place
plane
plate
scale
skate
snake
space
stage
trade
whale

ai

aid
aim
bail
bait
fail
gain
hail
jail
mail
main
paid
pain
raid
rail
rain
sail
tail
vain
wait
await
braid
brain
chain
claim
daisy
drain
faint
frail
grain
paint
plain
quail
raise
snail
stain
trail
train
waist
afraid
praise
raisin
sprain
strain

– ay

bay
day
hay
jay
lay
pay
ray
say
away
clay
play
pray
stay
tray
relay
today

Long E Words

even
evil
ego
egypt
equal
evening

e _ e

here
these
theme
gene
concede
precede
concrete
compete
delete
severe
sincere
complete

ea

eat
pea
sea
tea
bead
beak
beam
bean
beat
deal
each
easy
flea
heal
heap
heat
lead
leaf
leak
lean
leap
meal
mean
meat
neat
peak
read
seal
seam
seat
team
weak
beach
cheap
cheat
clean
dream
eager
eagle
feast
jeans
knead
leash
least
leave
peace
peach
reach
sneak
speak
steal
steam
teach
tease
treat
weave
wheat
beacon
beagle
beaver
grease
please
wreath

ee

bee
see
beef
beep
deep
feed
feel
feet
free
glee
heed
heel
jeep
keep
knee
meet
need
peek
peel
peep
reef
reel
seed
seek
seem
seen
teen
tree
weed
week
weep
agree
bleed
cheek
creek
geese
green
greet
kneel
queen
sheep
sheet
sleep
speed
steel
steep
sweep
sweet
teeth
three
tweet
wheel
asleep
breezze
chesse
coffee
fleece
freeze
needle
sneeze
speech
street

ie

field
thief
chief
alien
niece
piece
believe
brief

-y

any
baby
battery
belly
berry
body
bony
brainy
buggy
carry
cherry
chilly
city
cloudy
copy
daisy
dizzy
dolly
early
easy
every
ferry
hairy
icy
jelly
lady
party
penny
potty
pretty
salty
shiny
sorry
sticky
tidy
tiny
ugly
very
windy
worry
mummy
daddy

Long I Words

pilot
item
ivory
idea
idol
iris
iron
ice
cream

i _ e

ice
bike
bite
dice
dime
dive
file
file
fine
fire
five
hide
hike
hire
hive
item
kite
lice
life
like
lime
line
live
mice
nice
nine
pike
pile
pine
pipe
rice
ride
ripe
rise
side
size
tide
tile
time
tire
vine
wide
wife
wipe
wire
wise
alike
arise
bride
chime
crime
drive
glide
knife
price
pride
prize
shine
slice
slide
smile
spike
white

igh

high
sigh
fight
light
might
night
right
sight
tight
bright
flight
knight
delight
tonight
lightening

ie

die
lie
pie
tie
cried
tried
dried
fried
tied

-y

by
my
cry
dry
fry
fly
sly
spy
shy
why
apply
comply
supply
rely
reply
July
rhyme
cycle

Long O Words

go
so
no
bonus
focus
hotel
robot
total
omit
tomato
potato
banjo
piano

o _ e

go
so
no
bonus
focus
hotel
robot
total
omit
tomato
potato
banjo
piano
bone
code
cone
cope
dome
dose
hole
home
hope
hose
joke
lobe
mole
mope
nose
note
pole
poke
robe
rode
rope
rose
tone
vote
woke
wove
zone
alone
awoke
broke
choke
chose
close
drove
froze
globe
grove
phone
scope
slope
smoke
spoke
stole
stone
stove

oa

oak
oat
boat
coal
coat
foam
goal
goat
load
loaf
loan
oat
road
roam
soak
soap
toad
bloat
cloak
coach
coast
float
toast
throat

ow

bow
row
low
mow
own
tow
blow
bowl
crow
flow
glow
grow
know
show
slow
snow
arrow
below
fellow
follow
hollow
pillow
window
yellow

oe

Long U Words

unicorn
bugle
cupid
human
music
duty
unit
uniform
student

u _ e

use
cube
cute
dude
duke
fuse
huge
June
mule
mute
rude
rule
tube
tune
chute
fluke
flume
flute

ew

dew
few
mew
new
blew
brew
chew
crew
drew
flew
grew
knew
news
stew
screw
threw
jewel

oo

too
pool
room
moon
soon
food
mood
roost
proof
scoop
bloom
school
smooth
tooth
igloo
gloomy
goose
noodle
loose
spook

ue

due
Sue
glue
clue
blue