Words with the [ʌ / ə] sound
Mid-central; the relaxed 'uh' of an unstressed syllable (schwa).
Common spellings: u, o, a. Examples: cup, about, sofa.
- a
- an
- and
- award
- i'm
- again
- according
- especially
- awards
- appointed
- associated
- awarded
- association
- object
- effect
- against
- unusual
- objects
- edition
- authority
- us
- abandoned
- ability
- about
- above
- academy
- account
- across
- addition
- additional
- administrative
- adopted
- advanced
- affairs
- affected
- afraid
- ago
- agreed
- ahead
- alive
- allow
- allowed
- allows
- alone
- along
- alongside
- america
- american
- among
- amount
- announced
- another
- apart
- apparently
- appear
- appearance
- appeared
- appears
- applied
- approach
- approached
- assembly
- assistant
- attack
- attempt
- attend
- attended
- attention
- available
- avoid
- away
- o'clock
- observed
- occur
- occurred
- occurs
- of
- official
- opinion
- other
- others
- otherwise
- ultimately
- unable
- uncle
- under
- understand
- understood
- unknown
- unless
- unlike
- until
- up
- upon
- upper
- adapted
- authorities
- achieved
- accept
- obtained