English Words Without Vowels - a e i o u List - EnglishBix (2024)

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What 21 words have no vowels in English? ›

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.

There are no 'traditional' English words without both vowels or the letter 'y'. There are abbreviations such as “TV” as well as more modern words used in direct speech such as “psst” and “hmm”.

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." The alphabet's 26 letters cannot be put together to form a single English word. The 26-letter non-word "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" is the closest word to having all of the alphabet's letters.

Linguistically, the "sometimes" part of the grade-school lesson doesn't make sense, since the letter y is more commonly pronounced as a vowel. But its consonant sound is unique, and that seems to be why y is more often considered to be a consonant and only "sometimes" a vowel.

Twyndyllyngs, at 12 letters long, is the longest word in the English language without any of the five main vowels.

The longest word in any of the major English language dictionaries is pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (45 letters), a word that refers to a lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis.

Directions: Review the concept that the letter 'y' can function as both a consonant (as in the word 'yellow'), and as a vowel (as in the word 'fly'). It can also “team up” with other vowels to form a vowel team, (as in the words 'play' and 'toy').

More than 120 Scrabble words can be spelled without a vowel. However, the bad news is that the vast majority of these words require you to have the letter "Y" (or two).

What word only has Y as a vowel? ›

In American and Canadian English, there are currently 4,422 words with Q not followed by U including the following words in the table below. More commonly written Kabbalah, and also written Qabala [AHC], Qabbala [WI], Cabalah etc. Derived words include qabalism, qabalist, and qabalistic. More commonly spelled Kazakh.

The reason that BFF is not yet eligible is not so much that it has no vowels, as there are plenty of accepted words that fall into this category, including cwm, tsktsk, brr, and brrr.

Some examples of long vowel sound words with the letter "a" are lake, bake, snake, and cake. In each of these, the letter "a" sounds like the name of the letter itself. Some examples of the long vowel sound with the letter "e" are the words email, sneakers, and believe.

The seven letter word 'rhythms' is the longest English word that can be formed without using any vowel letter. There are other words too.

There are 21 consonants in the English alphabet—B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W, X, Y, Z. It's important to remember that certain consonant combinations can create different sounds altogether.

We can use five letters of English represent the vowel sound: a, e, i, o, u. 20 vowels in total: 7 short vowels: /ɪ/ /ʊ/ /ə/ /e/ /ɒ/ /ʌ/ /æ/ 5 long vowels: /iː/ /uː/ /ɑː/ /ɔː/ /ɜː/