What is the least common vowel?

The graph above shows that the vowel U is the least frequent of the 5 vowels.
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What is the most common vowel?

In English, schwa is the most common vowel sound. It is a reduced vowel in many unstressed syllables especially if syllabic consonants are not used.
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What word has least 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 is the rarest letter?

The rarest letters in English are J, Q, X, and Z.
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What is the least common letter?

As you can probably guess, the letter Z is the least commonly used letter in the English alphabet. (In American English, this letter is pronounced “zee.”) The letter Q is the second least commonly used letter. In English words, Q is almost always followed by the letter U.
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Is the letter Q useless?

Yes, the letter "q" is useless because it could almost always be written "kw". "Q" is also used when transliterating a sound found in Arabic, Hebrew, and other languages that we don't have in English, as in, for example, "al Qa'eda". "C" is useless.
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What is the 27th letter in the alphabet?

Total number of letters in the alphabet

Until 1835, the English Alphabet consisted of 27 letters: right after "Z" the 27th letter of the alphabet was ampersand (&). The English Alphabet (or Modern English Alphabet) today consists of 26 letters: 23 from Old English and 3 added later.
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What word has all 26 letters in it?

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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Is Z still in the alphabet?

Why did Z get removed from the alphabet? Around 300 BC, the Roman Censor Appius Claudius Caecus removed Z from the alphabet. His justification was that Z had become archaic: the pronunciation of /z/ had become /r/ by a process called rhotacism, rendering the letter Z useless.
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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 6 letter word has no vowels?

Rhythm, spryly, sylphy, and syzygy.
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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 does ə sound like?

Simply put, the schwa is a reduced, neutral vowel sound written as an upside-down and backwards e, ə, in the International Phonetic Alphabet (the universal chart of symbols, representing all the sounds languages make).
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What are the 7 vowels?

In writing systems based on the Latin alphabet, the letters A, E, I, O, U, Y, W and sometimes others can all be used to represent vowels.
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What are the 8 vowels?

Therefore diphthongs are also called gliding vowels. There are 8 diphtongs sounds in common english pronounciation namely – /a?/ , /e?/ , /??/ ,/a?/ ,/e?/ ,/??/ ,/??/, /??/. The word “Diphthong” is basically derived from the Greek word Diphthongs. This word literally means “having two different sounds”.
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Why is Y called i griega?

The letter is called i/y griega, literally meaning "Greek I", after the Greek letter ypsilon, or ye.
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Can w be a vowel?

Yes, the letter W can behave as a vowel. It's time to level up your Scrabble game, people. And, to all our grade-school peeps out there, get ready to knock the socks off your spelling teacher.
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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 word takes 3 hours to say?

Methionylthreonylthreonylglutaminylarginyl… isoleucine is the chemical name for the protein of “titin” also known as “connectin.” The largest known protein that consists of 26, 926 amino acids is made up of 189, 819 letters and can take about three hours to pronounce.
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Which sentence has A to z word?

A sentence using all the letters in the alphabet is called a pangram (from the Greek for "every letter"). "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" is the most famous pangram, but there are many others.
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What begins with E and ends with E riddle?

What starts with E ends with E and only has one letter in it?! – The Answer Wall.
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Is ñ a letter?

The only letter in the Spanish alphabet that originated in Spain, the Ñ is not only a letter but a representation of Hispanic heritage and identity as well. The Ñ's story started with 12th-century Spanish scribes.
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How old is the letter J?

I understand that the letter "J" is relatively new — perhaps 400–500 years old.
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