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Words What Have No Vowels In

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Spent a long time on this with a class I taught, still don't believe they ever cottoned on to what a vowel was.
Of course there is a distinction between a vowel sound and a vowel letter, it's just that 'Words What Don't Have A,E,I,O,U In' is a bit long-winded... Some argue that 'y' is actually a vowel. Not yet, it's not.
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syzygy   has been listed 176 times with 12 comments
cwm   has been listed 27 times with 4 comments
wry   has been listed 30 times with 0 comments
why   has been listed 19 times with 1 comment
tsk   has been listed 6 times with 0 comments
synth   has been listed 2 times with 0 comments
synch   has been listed 4 times with 0 comments
sylph   has been listed 44 times with 5 comments
spy   has been listed 14 times with 0 comments
spry   has been listed 28 times with 2 comments
sly   has been listed 29 times with 0 comments
sky   has been listed 33 times with 0 comments
scry   has been listed 13 times with 2 comments
pygmy   has been listed 10 times with 0 comments
psych   has been listed 5 times with 0 comments
nymph   has been listed 41 times with 2 comments
myrrh   has been listed 41 times with 16 comments
lynx   has been listed 14 times with 1 comment
lynch   has been listed 5 times with 1 comment
hymn   has been listed 25 times with 2 comments
gym   has been listed 7 times with 0 comments
glyph   has been listed 24 times with 10 comments
fry   has been listed 7 times with 0 comments
fly   has been listed 27 times with 3 comments
dry   has been listed 16 times with 2 comments
cyst   has been listed 13 times with 0 comments
crypt   has been listed 20 times with 0 comments
cry   has been listed 11 times with 0 comments
rhythm   has been listed 50 times with 9 comments
myth   has been listed 24 times with 0 comments
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7 months ago Asativum said:

One of my favorites is vlk, Slovak for wolf. Not English, though. I have a handful more at my Disemvoweled list, including pfft, psst, hm and of course shh.

7 months ago mollusque said:

How about slyly?

about 1 year ago jennarenn said:

I would say that tsk doesn't really have a vowel sound. Thoughts?

about 1 year ago seanahan said:

Does bzzz count?

about 1 year ago alguien said:

In cwm, the w acts as a vowel. I guess the distinction I should make is between a vowel letter and a vowel sound. I don't think there is an English word without a vowel sound.

about 1 year ago seanahan said:

Actually, y acts as a vowel in all of these words. However, they don't have a, e, i, o, or u, which I assume is the point.

cwm is the exception.

about 1 year ago alguien said:

Y acts as a vowel in the majority of these words.

about 1 year ago seanahan said:

You forgot the awesome syzygy.

about 1 year ago Quaxanta said:

I would also add cwm, a Welsh word that uses w for its vowel sound instead of y.

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