Usually after “short” vowels.
| VC and CVC | With adjacent consonants | With consonant digraphs | Polysyllabic words |
| biff buff cuff diff doff duff faff guff huff Jeff muff naff off piff puff riff ruff tiff toff But f as in if (column 6) | bluff fluff gruff scoff scruff scuff skiff sniff snuff stiff stuff | chuff quiff whiff | affair affect affirm affix afford baffle boffin buffer coffee coffin cutoff daffodil daffy differ duffer effect effort fluffy gaffer guffaw iffy jiffy muffin muffle offal offend offer office offset payoff piffle puffer puffin puffy quaff raffle rebuff ripoff ruffle runoff sniffy soffit spiffy staff stuffy suffer suffix tariff tipoff toffee tuffet waffle |
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Hi, You may want to add daffodil
Ok, thankyou! Done.
Hi Alison. staff is monosyllabic. I absolutely LOVE your work! You are amazing! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!
Yes, and ‘chaff’ and ‘quaff’, but the vowels in these words (at least in my accent) are harder than the ‘ff’ so I’ve put them on lists of words that are usually taught later on. I’m not trying to make these lists include every example of a words with a given spelling, just words that are useful for teaching, and ff is usually taught very early on, before (in my accent) /ar/ as in ‘grass’ or /o/ as in was. Hope that makes sense. Alison