Study the word list: aw words

One of the four ways of spelling the /or/ sound is with the letters aw. While there is no hard and fast rule for when the or sound is spelled this way, the letters aw are often used before the letters l and n (like in ‘crawl’ or ‘dawn’. This list looks at a few aw words.

Spellzone list

raw	Store raw meat away from cooked meat.
claw	The bear's claw is razor sharp.
draw	I won a thousand dollars in the draw.
thaw	The deep snow will take a week to thaw.
straw	The scarecrow was made from straw. *
hawk	We saw the hawk hover over its prey. *
squawk	We heard the parrot squawk.
dawn	Dawn broke over the beautiful meadow.
fawn	A young deer is called a fawn.
lawn	Mow the lawn before it rains.
pawn	A pawn is the small piece in a chess game.
yawn	Tiredness makes you yawn.
drawn	A line was drawn from coner to corner.
prawn	Shrimps and prawns must be cooked well.
spawn	There is frog spawn in our garden pond.
crawl	Our son began to crawl at the age of eight months.
trawl	We will trawl the internet to find him.
shawl	Grandma will make a shawl for the baby.
scrawl	His handwriting is just an untidy scrawl.