Tricky words
Tricky words have spellings that do not match their sounds in the usual way, like said, friend and eye.
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- 🥚egg
- 👁️eye
- 🔑key
- 🌌sky
- 🧊ice
- 😢cry
- 😳shy
- ⛷️ski
- 🐑lamb
- 🐻bear
- 🦌deer
- 🐺wolf
- 🪱worm
- 🦢swan
- 🍚rice
- 🍲soup
- 🧂salt
- 🍐pear
- 💇hair
- 🌴palm
- 🚪door
- 👟shoe
- 📄page
- ⚽ball
- 🧑🍳chef
- 🥇gold
- 😌calm
- 🪄wand
- 🐭mouse
- 🐴horse
- 🫎moose
- 🦥sloth
- 🪿goose
- 🍞bread
- 🧃juice
- 👍thumb
- ❤️heart
- 🩸blood
- 🪑chair
- 🧤glove
- 💃dance
- 🧑⚕️nurse
- 💂guard
- 🧗climb
- 🏠house
- 🌍earth
- 😐bored
- 🧌troll
- 🗡️sword
- 😷cough
- 🧀cheese
- 👅tongue
- 🏫school
- 🤴prince
- 🔲square
- 😨scared
- 🛡️shield
- 🤧sneeze
- toe
- add
- dry
- son
- odd
- sly
- hoe
- app
- wasp
- calf
- gnat
- colt
- roll
- yolk
- head
- wall
- hall
- comb
- word
- bush
- tyre
- race
- talk
- push
- fold
- tear
- lose
- pour
- tall
- huge
- grey
- half
- pair
- year
- mall
- post
- fair
- eggs
- pier
- type
- roar
- near
- germ
- geese
- louse
- sauce
- spice
- crumb
- slice
- dough
- fence
- chalk
- board
- break
- shore
- field
- flood
- yacht
- barge
- build
- niece
- child
- share
- learn
- watch
- young
- rough
- large
- great
- beige
- month
- space
- noise
- score
- gnome
- sieve
- front
- cheer
- fruit
- price
- stall
- store
- purse
- stairs
- drawer
- sleeve
- breeze
- bounce
- friend
- twelve
- fourth
- sphere
- plough
- trough
- charge
- change
- sponge
- squash
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