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Is there any word with all vowels?
The shortest word that I know of that contains all vowels in order is “facetious”. “Facetiously” adds “y” as a bonus. mAnOEUvrIng and bEhAvIOUr are examples with all 5 vowels in them.
What word has 4 vowels in a row?
An arbitrary selection of 4-vowel words: homoeoarchy, obsequiousness, palaeoencephalon, queue, lieue, rhythmopoeia, exsanguious.
What word uses all 5 vowels in order?
The word Iouea, a genus of sea sponges, contains all five regular vowels and no other letters. […] There are many words that feature all five regular vowels occurring only once in alphabetical order, the most common being abstemious and facetious.
Are there any words without consonants?
English. English has very few words of more than one syllable without a consonant, apart from proper names such as Aeaea, Aiea, Aia, Io, Eiao, Oea, Ea and sometimes Iowa (below), and perhaps a few taxonomic terms such as Iouea below. Iouea, /aɪjuːˈiːə/, or without consonant pronunciation, /aɪoʊˈiːə/.
What common word has 4 vowels one after the another?
Queue is the answer.
What is the longest word with only vowels?
Euouae
Euouae, at six letters long, is the longest English word consisting only of vowels, and, also, the word with the most consecutive vowels. Words with five consecutive vowels include cooeeing and queueing.
What is the longest word without a vowel?
crwth
The longest words that contain no vowel and no ‘y’ are crwth (a Celtic stringed instrument), cwtch (a shed, cuddle, or hiding place), phpht (an expression of mild irritation), and grrrl (part of the phrase ‘riot girl’, which describes a subculture that mixes feminism and punk rock).
What is the longest consonant word?
Honorificabilitudinitatibus
Honorificabilitudinitatibus, at 27 letters long, is the longest English word consisting strictly of alterating consonants and vowels. It means “With honorableness” (a nonsense word from medieval literature) Eighteen letter words with this property include epicoracohumeraler and myelocytomatosises.
What English words have no vowels?
There are loads of English words that don’t have a vowel in them! they include rhythm, wry, sly, sky, fly, cry, sync (accepted as short form of “synchronise” & its’ derivatives), all very good words to know when playing Scrabble ! As you can see, not ALL English words have vowels in, sometimes a “y” pretends to be one…
What words contain all of the vowels?
There are several seven-letter words containing all the vowels, including SEQUOIA, EULOGIA , MIAOUED, ADOULIE, EUCOSIA, EUNOMIA , EUTOPIA, MOINEAU, and DOULEIA. The relatively common French word OISEAU (meaning bird) contains all five vowels, once each.
Are there any real English words without a vowel?
There are very few lexical words (that is, not counting interjections) without vowel letters. The longest such lexical word is tsktsks, pronounced /ˌtɪskˈtɪsks/. The mathematical expression nth /ˈɛnθ/, as in delighted to the nth degree, is in fairly common usage. Another mathematical term without vowel letters is ln, the natural logarithm.
Which are English words contain only vowels?
“garden”