OUGH/AUGH-related Words

Each short vowel has to be spelled with one single letter.
If any short vowel is spelled with two or three vowel letters combination, it should be regarded as an exception to be modifyed.
The "gh" digraph should be respelled with f or ff when it sounds like /f/.

AUGH-related words

Spellings of words where "-augh-" has "af" sound

Spellings of words where "-augh-" has au/aw sound
--- ex. aught, caught, daughter, distraught, fraught, haughty, manslaughter, mistaught, naught, naughty, onslaught, self-taught, slaughter, taught, uncaught, untaught.

For more -augh- words, please visit http://www.morewords.com/contains/augh/.

OUGH-related words

bough --- no change
plough --- plow

hiccough --- hiccup

cough --- coff
trough --- troff

chough --- (chuff)(Homophones exist.)
enough --- enuff
rough --- ruff
tough --- tuff

dough --- doh
doughnut --- donut
furlough --- furlow, furloe(?)
although --- altho
though --- tho

through --- thru

thorough --- (thoro)
borough --- (boro)

OUGHT-related words

Insted of "nought", we often use "naught". But we cannot use "aught" for "ought", both of which should be retained.

Words such as "bought", "brought", "fought", "sought", "thought", and "wrought" rhyme. These rhyme with "caught" and "taught", too.
(--- Optionally, respell "ough" as "au", as to these words.)

However, these two words below hav no analogy to the above-mentioned words.
doughty --- dowty
drought --- drout

Links

OUGH: American English pronunciation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJmLHS4NpPA

VOWEL SPELLING PATTERNS OF ENGLISH

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