We know that in digraph two letters come together to make one sound (as in the words read, boat or tail). But When a digraph is split by a consonant it becomes a split digraph.
The split digraph is followed by an ‘e’ after the initial vowel to change the sound of the vowel. In the English language, there are five split digraphs. They are as follows:
- a – e
- e – e
- i – e
- o – e
- u – e
So, let us now look at some examples of each one of the split digraphs.
A_E Split Digraph Words List
Following are examples of words with a_e digraph.
| Cake | Grapes | Maze | Whale |
| Snake | Came | Name | Made |
| Make | Ape | Gave | Same |
| Shape | Plate | Chase | Game |
| Bake | Date | Fade | Quake |
| Safe | Sale | Same | Save |
| Wake | Wave | Chase | Shade |
| Grade | Skate | Plane | State |
| Cage | Space | Trace | Place |
| Blame | Brave | Crane | Flake |
| Amaze | Parade | Inflate | Surname |
| Mistake | Arcade | Pancake | Brigade |
E_E Split Digraph Words List
| Eve | These | Theme | Obese |
| Gene | Athlete | Scene | Complete |
| Scheme | Delete | Extreme | Evening |
| Even | Scene | Swede | Steve |
| Concede | Precede | Chinese | Japanese |
| Precede | Concrete | Compete | Concede |
I_E Split Digraph Words List
| Pine | Ripe | Hide | Glide |
| Slide | Prize | Nice | Invite |
| Inside | Time | Five | Dive |
| White | Side | Like | Lime |
| Kite | Nine | Smile | Hive |
| Kite | Alike | Polite | Divide |
| Bagpipes | Daytime | Sunshine | Turbine |
| Survive | Ignite | While | Quite |
| Slime | Spice | Twice | Price |
| Stripes | Spike | Write | Bride |
| Crime | Knife | Glide | Tribe |
O_E Split Digraph Words List
| Bone | Cone | Hole | Home |
| Hope | Hose | Nose | Note |
| Mole | Joke | Tone | Woke |
| Vote | Rose | Rode | Quote |
| Zone | Those | Phone | Chose |
| Close | Clone | Broke | Wrote |
| Whole | Froze | Globe | Slope |
| Spoke | Smoke | Stole | Remote |
| Stroke | Throne | Alone | Stone |
U_E Split Digraph Words List
| Cube | Tune | Cute | Use |
| Rule | Tube | June | Flute |
| Rude | Prune | Brute | Huge |
| Dude | Duke | Mule | Salute |
| Include | Conclude | Confuse | Refuse |
| Volume | Excuse | Perfume | Dispute |
| Fortune | Ridicule | Amuse | Distribute |
When we’ll pronounce the words, you’ll notice the change in the sound of the first vowel from a hard sound to a longer softer sound, this is because of the ‘e’.
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