What word uses y as a vowel?

When y forms a diphthong—two vowel sounds joined in one syllable to form one speech sound, such as the "oy" in toy, "ay" in day, and "ey" in monkey—it is also regarded as a vowel. Typically, y represents a consonant when it starts off a word or syllable, as in yard, lawyer, or beyond.
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What words have no vowels but y?

Scrabble Words With No Vowels That Use "Y"
  • BY.
  • BYRL.
  • BYRLS.
  • BYS.
  • CRY.
  • CRYPT.
  • CRYPTS.
  • CYST.
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What is a single vowel y?

Y functions as a vowel when it appears in two positions. Y functions as a vowel when it appears at the end of a word with more than one syllable. Y also represents the long sound of the letter e.
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Is the y in candy a 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 word has y as second letter?

5-Letter Words with Y as the Second Letter List
  • ayahs.
  • ayaya.
  • ayelp.
  • aygre.
  • ayins.
  • ayont.
  • ayres.
  • ayrie.
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Y as a vowel (The Cry Baby Rule)



What is a 5 letter word with no vowels except y?

“Y” must be used in the word. The most popular answers for the puzzle that satisfies the requirements mentioned above include byrls, chynd, crypt, cysts, dryly, flyby, fyrds, etc.
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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 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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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 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 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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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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What is the 2nd longest word in the world?

2. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (36 letters)
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What 21 words have no vowels?

  • byrls.
  • crwth.
  • crypt.
  • cysts.
  • dryly.
  • flyby.
  • ghyll.
  • glyph.
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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 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 word has 5 vowels in a row?

Words with five consecutive vowels include cooeeing and queueing.
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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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Which country has all 5 vowels?

MOZAMBIQUE is the only country which contain all 5 vovel in it.
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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 is longest word in the world?

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis is the longest word entered in the most trusted English dictionaries.
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What word in the English language uses all five vowels and y?

The word FACETIOUSLY contains the six vowels, A-E-I-O-U and Y, in their alphabetical order.
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What has a neck but no head?

The answer to the “who is that with a neck and no head” riddle is “a shirt”. There you have it! We mentioned that it can be more than one thing as the correct answer could also be a sweater etc.
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What can run but can't walk?

The answer to the riddle is water, a river. A river can run but not walk. It has a mouth but never talks and has a head but never weeps, has a bed (riverbed) but never sleeps. Follow the FreshersLive page for more Funny and Tricky Riddles and puzzles to keep yourself relaxed and active!
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