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How many phonemes in the word shoe?

The word "shoe" has three phonemes:

* ʃ (the "sh" sound)

* u (the vowel sound in "book")

* **/ˈ/ (the stress marker)

While "shoe" is spelled with four letters, the "oe" digraph represents a single sound.

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