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A colorful educational image featuring a child in a pink airplane surrounded by floating letters, with the text "-ought Word Families" prominently displayed and a gift box with a pink bow.

A colorful educational image featuring a child in a pink airplane surrounded by floating letters, with the text "-ought Word Families" prominently displayed and a gift box with a pink bow.

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The image highlights the word family ending in -ought. Here are common words that belong to this family:

1. bought (past tense of buy)
2. thought (past tense of think)
3. fought (past tense of fight)
4. sought (past tense of seek)
5. caught (past tense of catch)
6. taught (past tense of teach)
7. brought (past tense of bring)
8. sought (past tense of seek)
9. wrought (worked or shaped, often used in "wrought iron")
10. drought (a long period without rain)

Note: Some words like *cough*, *tough*, *rough*, and *enough* end in “-ough” but have different pronunciations and are not part of the same phonetic word family as *-ought* (which sounds like /ɔːt/).

Final Answer:
Words in the -ought family include: bought, thought, fought, sought, caught, taught, brought, drought, wrought.
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