[o]

 

[bot]     boat
[lo]     low
[hod]     hoed (past tense of hoe)
[bo]     beau

 

You'll often find a more complicated transcription for this sound in dictionaries and other books. The following are fairly popular: [ow], [ou], [oʊ], [oʊ̯], and [oː].

 

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