Spelling By Numbers: Vowel Sound Focus – Long OO

Have fun playing “Codebreaker” and build your vocabulary with new words at the same time.  Using the he Alphabet is the code, decipher the list of words below.  Each letter and their corresponding number is always the same, so it will help you learn the structure and patterns of the English language.   When you have decoded the list, if there are any words you aren’t familiar with, look them up in your dictionary.

All the words in this list contain the vowel sound “long OO”.
However, you always need to aware that as with all mysteries, looks can be deceiving.
Although sound is the same, sometimes the spelling can look quite different.

 

1=A 2=B 3=C 4=D 5=E 6=F 7=G 8=H 9=I 10=J
11=K 12=L 13=M 14=N 15=O 16=P 17=Q 18=R 19=S 20=T
21=U 22=V 23=W 24=X 25=Y 26=Z
  1. 2-15-15-20
  2. 20-8-18-15-21-7-8
  3. 9-7-12-15-15
  4. 19-15-21-16
  5. 2-12-21-5
  6. 7-18-5-23
  7. 2-1-13-2-15-15
  8. 2-15-15-19-20-5-18
  9. 11-1-12-7-1-18-15-15
  10. 20-18-15-21-16-5
  11. 10-5-23-5-12-12-5-18-25
  12. 3-8-5-23-9-14-7
  13. 13-15-15-19-5
  14. 15-15-26-9-14-7
  15. 3-15-3-11-1-20-15-15
  16. 9-14-20-18-21-4-5
  17. 3-1-18-20-15-15-14
  18. 7-18-15-15-22-5
  19. 16-18-15-22-5
  20. 12-15-15-19-5-14-9-7

 

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