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Irregular-high frequency words

Irregular-high frequency words – a set of high-frequency words that readers cannot "sound out" because they do not have dependable grapheme phoneme relationships. Examples include does, was, and were. However, some graphemes in most irregular words can be decoded (for example, /d/ in does). Only about 12% of high-frequency words are irregular, the remaining high-frequency words can be decoded.

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