Table 1. 90 common words spell the long OO-sound with oo, but
91 words spell it with other letters, in the stem of words and endings.
And in some words oo spells a shorter sound, e.g. ‘good‘ in table 2.
| boom | shoot | brood | brutal | bruise | tomb |
| boon | smooth | broom | brute | cruise | womb |
| boost | snooker | droop | crucial | fruit | |
| boot | soon | groom | crude | recruit | shrewd |
| choose | soothe | groove | cruel | sluice | |
| cool | spoof | proof | frugal | manoeuvre | |
| doom | spook | roof | intrude | lose | |
| food | spool | room | prune | move | gruesome |
| fool | spoon | root | ruby | prove | |
| goose | stool | troop | rude | sleuth | |
| hoof | stoop | ruined | acoustic | ||
| hooligan | swoon | macaroon | rule | bivouac | |
| hoop | swoop | maroon | rural | boutique | |
| hoot | tool | mushroom | truant | coupon | |
| lagoon | tooth | truce | group | ||
| mood | whoop | truly | recoup | ||
| moon | zoom | bloom | fluent | route | |
| moor | gloom | fluid | soup | ||
| moot | baboon | loom | fluke | toucan | |
| noodle | cartoon | loop | flute | tourist | |
| noon | cocoon | loose | glucose | troupe | |
| noose | harpoon | loosen | include | wound | |
| poodle | pontoon | loot | lubricate | youth | |
| pool | ludicrous | ||||
| school | balloon | ludo | truth | ||
| schooner | saloon | lukewarm | |||
| scoop | luminous | ||||
| scooter | lunar | ||||
| lunatic | |||||
| plural | |||||
| recluse | |||||
| secluded | |||||
| plumage | |||||
| bamboo | boo | blue | blew | do | |
| cockatoo | coo | clue | brew | lasso | |
| hullabaloo | goo | flue | flu | crew | to |
| igloo | loo | glue | gnu | drew | two |
| kangaroo | moo | rue | guru | flew | who |
| shampoo | shoo | true | zulu | grew | |
| tattoo | too | screw | |||
| voodoo | woo | construe | shrew | canoe | |
| yahoo | zoo | accrue | slew | shoe | |
| strew | |||||
| threw | through | ||||
| cashew | you |