English spellings > Catalogs > Retro U
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This page lists pronunciations of English words that end in U. The list is in retroalphabetical order, that is, alphabetically beginning with the final letter of the word (in this case U) and continuing backwards through it.
Headwords are on the right, but otherwise entries read in the normal way, from left to right.
The apostrophe is treated as the last letter of the alphabet, after Z.[e]
after a consonant: -û
*táblô tábleau
*byoôrô bûreau
trûe sô = troûsseau
*pláttô pláteau
Nássåu
silent u in Guínea; rhyming with hòw: Guínea Bíssàù
Z- Xánadu
chimney flûe = illness flû
*êemyoô êmu
*noô, although perhaps more famous as 'gənû' in the Flanders and Swann song: gnû
cáriboû
loô = Loû
Perû
gùru
Uhùru
