The EE pair makes a type of long E sound called a caret I (ee-er), as in the rhyming Words beer, deer, peer, queer, veer, and steer, as well as in here, hear, gear, clear, rear, and year.
It is also heard in the contraction we're and the IE/EI Words bier and weird.
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