Words ending with ood can be pronounced differently. The following list illustrates three different pronunciations:
blood
flood
good
hood
stood
wood
brood
food
mood
snood
The words blood and flood rhyme with mud. Only the first segment of the words is different. The second group of words rhymes with could and the final group rhymes with rude. The second group has a high back tense vowel and the third group has a high back lax one.
Words with the ending ood exhibit three different pronunciations. The vowel is pronounced as a high back tense vowel when it is word final as in too, but in the ending ood, the high back lax vowel is also common. The high mid central vowel of blood and flood occurs less frequently.
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