The vowel sound of the OA in boat is a long O (oh). The rhyming Words are coat, float, goat, and gloat, and also dote, note, rote, tote, and wrote.
The long O can be heard in other spellings such as:
- Words with an O (go, comb, cold)
- Words with an O with a silent E (tone, hole)
- Words with an OE (doe, foe)
- Words with OUGH (dough, though)
- Words with OW (flow, mow, row)
Also the French spellings eau, eaux, and aux (beau, faux, bureau).
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