letter string "ou" and phonemes it spells in USA English.

[Tom Zurinskas]

Here is an analysis of "ou" frequency in media text and the phonemes it spells.
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Truespel analysis by Tom Zurinskas   10/10/10
Data are from the Collins Cobuild count of words in media text.

For words containing "ou" in USA English tradspel -

There are 186 present in the most popular 5k words in English.
They have 689,780 instances out of 15.4M total instances.
The top word is "you," more than double the next word "would."
There are 10 sounds for the tradstreeng "ou" .
They are listed below with most frequent word per phoneme given.

phoneme instances top word truespel
~ou 32% out ~out
~ue 25% you ~yue
~oo 18% would ~wood
~er 6% your ~yer
~ue 5% enough ~innuf
~au 4% thought ~thhaut
~or 4% course ~kors
~i 4% serious ~seereeyis
~oe 2% though ~thoe
~aawer 1% hours ~aawerz
 100%

This analysis is akin to the analysis of the letters of the alphabet in truespel book 4.



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