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MOST OF THE COMMON EASY-TO-READ /AY/ & /AI/ WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
In all Easy-To-Read words, the letter combinations "ai" & "ay" have the speech sound /aa/ as in "day".

This was all compiled manually, so we have certainly missed lots of words. Tell us if you know some we should include.

abstain
acclaim
again
aid
aide
aid-de-camp
aids
ail
aileron
ailment
ails
aim
attain

bail
bay
bays
blackmail
brain
bray

cay
claim
claimer
claiming
clay
complain
complaint
contain
containment
crayfish

 

daily
dainty
daisy
day
days
derail
detail
detain
display
drain
dray

entail
entertain
entrails
exclaim
explain
explaining

fail
flay
fray

gain
gait
grail
grain
grainy
gray

hail
hay
hurray

 

 

interplay

jail
jailer
jay
jays

lay
layer
layette
lays
laid
lain

maid
mail
mailer
maim
main
mainly
milkmaid
minelayer
may
mayhem
mayoral

naif
nail
nailer
nay
nays

 

obtained
obtains

paid
pail
pain
painful
painfully
parlay
plain
plainer
plainest
plainly
play
player
playoff
pray
prayer

quitclaim
quay

raid
raided
raider
rail
railroad
rails
rain
rainment
rainy
ray
rays
refrain

 

sail
sailor
sails
Saturday
say
slain
slay
snail
snails
spay
stain
stay
stays
subway
Sunday
sway

tail
tailor
trait
tray
Tuesday
Thursday

unaided
underway
upsy-daisy

vain



 

waif
wait
waits
waiter
way
ways

x-ray

yesterday