Irregularly Spelled High-Frequency Words
What are irregularly spelled high-frequency words? A set of high-frequency words that readers cannot "sound out" because they do not have dependable grapheme phoneme relationships. Only about 12% of high-frequency words are irregular, the remaining high-frequency words can be decoded.
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