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.
- unspoken
- unsuspected
- unthinkable
- untold
- unwillingly
- upload
- uprooted
- uptake
- abhorrence
- accommodating
- affinities
- allowable
- anathema
- atrocious
- emilio
- obliquely
- oppress
- others'
- ugliness
- ultrasonic
- uncomfortably
- unconcerned
- underestimate
- unevenly
- uninterested
- unpainted
- unproven
- unqualified
- unrealistic
- unsatisfied
- unsound
- unsupported
- untidy
- upheaval
- upmarket
- upriver
- abated
- abortive
- accumulates
- admonished
- ahern
- alleviated
- annealing
- annuity
- aphasia
- approvingly
- arabians
- assassinations
- astride
- athwart
- attributable
- attributing
- avenging
- undoubted
- unequivocal
- unfaithful
- unholy
- unkempt
- unmasked
- unremarkable
- unsaturated
- unskilled
- utters
- abhorred
- acoustically
- addicts
- afflictions
- affording
- aleutian
- allegro
- anemone
- annihilate
- apologetically
- appointees
- aquino
- astonish
- astrologers
- atheism
- attainable
- attains
- attrition
- obstruct
- occlusion
- unbeaten
- unbeknownst
- unbreakable
- uncontested
- underlie
- underlies
- understandable
- understandings
- unduly
- unsympathetic
- abashed
- abeyance
- abolishing
- adapts
- adonis
- affirms
- akita