AR (car) Sound Multisyllable Word List
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The /ar/ sound has one main spelling, ar (car) and a few rare ones including arr (charred). These word lists are arranged both by spelling and by the chunk that the spelling occurs. They can be a valuable resource for locating words to illustrate a certain pattern or to find words to practice reading that pattern.
Of the 7,000 words in the database constructed from a popular children’s dictionary, 134 of them are multisyllable words containing the vowel sound /ar/.
Note on the word divisions: Each word is divided into chunks determined by the unique and highly effective OnTrack Reading Multisyllable Method. The chunks are not syllables.
The OnTrack Reading curriculum also avoids teaching the schwa sound. Instead, “perfect pronunciation” is emphasized for spelling purposes. This technique is applied to words like arrive, chunked as arr ive, where the first chunk, "arr", is pronounced as the /ar/ sound. However, words ending with an /er/ sound spelled with "ar", like collar, are found on the list of /er/ spellings.
