Can a word have no vowels?

Words with no vowels. Cwm and crwth do not contain the letters a, e, i, o, u, or y, the usual vowels (that is, the usual symbols that stand for vowel sounds) in English. But in those words the letter w simply serves instead, standing for the same sound that oo stands for in the words boom and booth.
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What 7 letter word has no vowels?

Not including plurals, there is only one seven-letter word which has none of the five vowels. That word is nymphly, which is a rare variation of 'nymphlike'. However, two six-letter words, glycyl and rhythm, can have an 's' added in the plural to make a seven-letter word without a vowel.
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What 21 words have no vowels?

  • byrls.
  • crwth.
  • crypt.
  • cysts.
  • dryly.
  • flyby.
  • ghyll.
  • glyph.
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What word has all 26 letters?

An English pangram is a sentence that contains all 26 letters of the English alphabet. The most well known English pangram is probably “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”. My favorite pangram is “Amazingly few discotheques provide jukeboxes.”
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Is y still vowel?

Y is considered to be a vowel if… The word has no other vowel: gym, my. The letter is at the end of a word or syllable: candy, deny, bicycle, acrylic.
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"Rhythms" IS Spelt With a Vowel



What are non vowels called?

consonant Add to list Share. A consonant is a speech sound that is not a vowel. It also refers to letters of the alphabet that represent those sounds: Z, B, T, G, and H are all consonants. Consonants are all the non-vowel sounds, or their corresponding letters: A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y are not consonants.
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Which word has all 5 vowels?

Eunoia, at six letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels.
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What word has all 6 vowels?

[...] Considering y as a vowel, the suffix -ly can be added to a number of these words; thus the shortest word containing six unique vowels in alphabetical order is aeriously, with nine letters (OED)[.]
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Is there a word with just vowels?

Words (found in major English dictionaries) consisting entirely of vowels include AA (a type of lava), AE, AI, AIEEE, IAO, OII, EAU, EUOUAE, OE, OO, I, O, A, IO, and UOIAUAI, the last of these being the longest vowel-only word (seven letters).
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Is there a word with only consonants?

Another class of words with only consonants is onomatopoeic words. These are words that mimic sounds. Someone who is cold might say, Brr. Pfft is a common sound of dismissal.
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What is a word with 11 letters?

Some of the most common 11 letter words include: INFORMATION: Knowledge or facts learn, especially about a certain subject. PROFESSIONS: Jobs and occupations, what people do for a living. COPYRIGHTED: Material that is protected by copyright, a legal right.
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What's the shortest word ever?

The shortest word is a. Some might wonder about the word I since it consists of one letter, too. In sound, a is shorter because it is a monophthong (consists of one vowel), while I is a diphthong. Both do consist of one letter in the English writing system, and in most fonts I is the narrowest letter.
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What word takes 3 hours to say?

You will be surprised to know that the longest word in English has 1, 89,819 letters and it will take you three and a half hours to pronounce it correctly. This is a chemical name of titin, the largest known protein.
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Can H be a vowel?

In English, The pronunciation of ⟨h⟩ as /h/ can be analyzed as a voiceless vowel. That is, when the phoneme /h/ precedes a vowel, /h/ may be realized as a voiceless version of the subsequent vowel.
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What 6 letter word has no vowels?

Rhythm, spryly, sylphy, and syzygy. Originally Answered: Is there a six-letter word in the English language (no slang) that contains no vowels?
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Are there any 5 letter words with no vowels?

The most popular answers for the puzzle that satisfies the requirements mentioned above include byrls, chynd, crypt, cysts, dryly, flyby, fyrds, etc. The puzzle developer's requirement included “y”,which made the puzzle more complex. So read till the end about the 5 Letter Word With No Vowels Except Y.
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Is there a word without a consonant?

io: a shout of joy or triumph; a large hawk (Buteo solitaries) that is the only indigenous raptorial bird of Hawaii. oe: a violent whirlwind off the Faroe islands. oo: a Hawaiian honeyeater of the genus Moho.
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Is there a word with 1000 letters?

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

It's a technical word referring to the lung disease more commonly known as silicosis.
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What is the longest video on YouTube?

Jonathan Harchick of Moldy Toaster Media currently holds the record for the longest video on YouTube, titled “THE LONGEST VIDEO ON YOUTUBE – 596 HOURS.” The video was uploaded back in 2012 and hasn't been beaten as far as we know.
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What is the oldest word?

According to a 2009 study by researchers at Reading University, the oldest words in the English language include “I“, “we“, “who“, “two” and “three“, all of which date back tens of thousands of years.
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Is I a word?

1. "I" is obviously a word because it is a personal pronoun. "A" is the indefinite article.
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What is the weirdest word?

Here are the 12 weirdest words in English:
  • Vex.
  • Bequeath.
  • Mixology.
  • Flub.
  • [
  • Bibble.
  • Kakorrhaphiophobia.
  • Berserk.
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What is a word with 20 letters?

All 20 Letter Words from A to Z!
  • ABDOMINOHYSTERECTOMY.
  • ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE.
  • ACETYLMETHYLCARBINOL.
  • ADRENOCORTICOSTEROID.
  • ADRENOCORTICOTROPHIC.
  • ADRENOCORTICOTROPHIN.
  • ANARCHOINDIVIDUALIST.
  • ANATOMICOCHIRURGICAL.
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What is a word that has 12 letters?

12 letter words that start with B
  • babyproofing.
  • bacchanalian.
  • bachelordoms.
  • bachelorette.
  • bachelorhood.
  • bachelorisms.
  • bachelorlike.
  • backbenchers.
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