Welcome to the practice page for /ʊ/ vowel (as in ‘Foot’) in General American English (GenAm).
Put | Look | Took | Good | Should |
Cook | Crook | Pull | Hoof | Hood |
Book | Nook | Could | Woof | Books |
Hooked | Wood | Full | Bull | Stood |
Soot | Bush | Shook | Would | Wool |
/ʊ/ Phrases- Repeated Occurrence |
Look good | Cook book | Full bush |
Could pull | Put hook | Wolf hoof |
Shook foot | Nook crook | Cooked wood |
Butch looked | Took rook | Push-pull |
Would should | Bull wool | Brook soot |
/ʊ/ Phrases- Single Occurrence |
Put here | Look down | Good enough | The hook | Hurt foot |
Cook dinner | The crook | Horse hoof | Cook lunch | Read book |
Streaming brook | Little nook | Running bull | Push hard | Rook card |
Hooked fish | Wood barrel | Should we | Car hood | Stood up |
Fire soot | Itchy wool | Could you | Took one | Gray wolf |
/ʊ/ Sentences- Repeated Occurrence |
The cookbook is full of good recipes | The book nook looks good |
I like pizza cooked over wood without soot | Put the fish hook in the brook |
Don’t think about would’ve, should’ve, could’ve | The bull and woof stood in the grass |
The crook took the rook from the chessboard | I have a bull wool sock on my foot |
I shook my foot when it got wet in the brook | Push the hook up and then pull the door closed |
/ʊ/ Sentences- Single Occurrence |
Are you on Facebook | He’s like a bull in a china shop |
What does it look like | Put the dirty dishes in the sink |
Would you want to grab lunch | I cooked dinner for my roommate |
I don’t really like to cook | The condo has a cute little nook |
The wreck really shook me up | The rook is a chess piece |