Educational worksheet practicing the "ough" sound in various words.

Let’s look at the words in each column. All of them end with “ough” — that’s a tricky spelling pattern in English because it can sound different in different words!

We’ll go row by row and say how each word is pronounced, so you can hear the difference.

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First row:
- plough → sounds like “plow” (rhymes with “cow”)
- through → sounds like “throo” (rhymes with “blue”)
- rough → sounds like “ruf” (rhymes with “stuff”)

Second row:
- cough → sounds like “kof” (rhymes with “off”)
- trough → sounds like “trof” (rhymes with “off”) — same as “cough”
- though → sounds like “thoh” (rhymes with “go”)

Third row:
- bough → sounds like “bow” (like bending down, rhymes with “cow”)
- bought → sounds like “bot” (rhymes with “hot”)
- thought → sounds like “thot” (rhymes with “hot”)

Fourth row:
- brought → sounds like “brot” (rhymes with “hot”)
- dough → sounds like “doh” (rhymes with “go”)
- enough → sounds like “enuff” (rhymes with “stuff”)

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Now let’s group them by how they sound:

✔ Sounds like “ow” (as in cow):
→ plough, bough

✔ Sounds like “oo” (as in blue):
→ through

✔ Sounds like “uf” or “uff” (as in stuff):
→ rough, cough, trough, enough

✔ Sounds like “oh” (as in go):
→ though, dough

✔ Sounds like “ot” (as in hot):
→ bought, thought, brought

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This shows that even though all these words end in “ough”, they don’t all rhyme! That’s why English spelling can be tricky — but now you know how to read them correctly.

Final Answer:
The words ending in “ough” have different pronunciations:
- “plough” and “bough” sound like “ow”
- “through” sounds like “oo”
- “rough”, “cough”, “trough”, and “enough” sound like “uf”
- “though” and “dough” sound like “oh”
- “bought”, “thought”, and “brought” sound like “ot”