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How to Spell Vowel Digraphs. Vowel digraphs are letter combinations in which the two vowels together make a single sound. (Some, like âauâ or âoi,â are also diphthongs, in which the combination contains the basic sounds of both vowels, but they glide together to make one sound.) Here are some suggestions for sounding them out in unfamiliar words.
1 The letter Y is a vowel only if it creates an A, E, I, O, or U sound. 2  examples: fry, try, cry, & dry. 3  The number of times that you hear the sound of a vowel is the number of syllables in a word. 4  When two (or more) vowels are next to each other, the number of syllables depends on the number of vowel sounds. When two (or more) vowels are next to each other, the number of syllables depends on the number of vowel sounds. 2  examples: free (1 syllable), eat (1 syllable), & bio (2 syllables). 3  If a vowel is silent, it is not counted as a syllable.