IE (tie) Sound Multisyllable Word List

The /ie/ sound has five spellings, i (find), ie (pie), i-e (pine), y (cry), and igh (high). 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, 374 of them are multisyllable words containing the vowel sound /ie/.

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.