Do any words 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 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”.
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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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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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"Rhythms" IS Spelt With a Vowel



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 6 letter word has no vowels?

Rhythm, spryly, sylphy, and syzygy.
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Is there a word with only 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 WA a vowel?

A, E, I, O, U, Y, and, as we'll see, W, are called vowels, but let's get technical. They are symbols (letters) that represent a special type of speech sound called a vowel. According to phoneticians, a vowel is a speech sound that is made without significant constriction of the flow of air from the lungs.
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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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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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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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Can H be a vowel?

English h is not a voiceless vowel; it's a voiceless glide -- the non-syllabic counterpart to a voiceless vowel. (If it were syllabic, it would be a voiceless vowel.)
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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 the 2nd longest word in the world?

2. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (36 letters)
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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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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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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 word says a whole day?

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters)

Pneumoconiosis comes after you inhale very fine silicate or quartz dust.
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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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What is the longest word with only vowels?

Euouae is six letters long, but all of the letters are vowels. It holds two Guinness World Records. It's the longest English word composed exclusively of vowels, and it has the most consecutive vowels of any word. If you are wondering about its meaning, it's a musical term from medieval times.
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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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Are there any 5 letter words without a vowel?

Instead, try some 5 letter words that only use Y as a vowel. These are five letter words without AEIOU. Crypt: An underground chamber or vault commonly used as a burial chamber. Dryly: To do something in a dry or matter-of-fact manner.
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