CVC Words: Complete Word List

What Are CVC Words?

CVC words are words with a consonant-vowel-consonant pattern, such as cat, bed, pig, dog, and sun. The vowel usually makes its short sound, making CVC words useful for beginning readers learning to sound out and blend words.

CVC stands for consonant, vowel, consonant. Each letter usually maps to one sound that children can blend together:

• cat → c / a / t
• bed → b / e / d
• pig → p / i / g
• dog → d / o / g
• sun → s / u / n

CVC Word Families

CVC words that share the same ending can be grouped into word families. For example:

• -at: bat, cat, fat, hat, mat, pat, rat, sat
• -an: can, fan, man, pan, ran, tan

Explore our complete word families list for more ending patterns beginning readers use every day.

See our complete list of 90+ CVC words: