Can you think of a word without a vowel?!
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Can you think of a word without a vowel?
There isn't a lot but lets see what you people got! Additional Details
16 hours ago
That doesnt have any Y's
16 hours ago
And abbrieviations dont count
Answers: 16 hours ago
That doesnt have any Y's16 hours ago
And abbrieviations dont count rhythm, pry, fly, dry, my, spy try Syzygy.
:) why? Rhythm (Y is sometimes a vowel but its pretty good) * Rhythm*
*Trysts* Try? my is the word without a vowel cry Ive always heard that if there is no vowel in the word, then its not a word.
Y is a vowel when A,E,I,O.U are not present!!!!!!!!!!!! cry cry...by .sky....most words with a y as the only vowel....if you don't count y as a vowel...but we always did if it was the only vowel try sky? sky, my, by, pfft (letting air out)
psst (telling a secret) cry thy There are none(or at least there shouldnt be any)
a word without a vowel makes no sence cwm - (pronounced koom) - it's a kind of hill. It's a word that pwns when playing Scrabble...
Oh yeah, pwn doesn't have any vowels either. Fry do abbreviations count Crwth
The crwth is an archaic stringed musical instrument, associated particularly with Wales, although once played widely in Europe. It's A,E,I,O,U and sometimes Y are vowels. Actually, y and w are sometimes vowels. That's why they are called semi-vowels.
You could argue that in words like try or rhythmn the y is actually a vowel and thus there are no English words without vowels. I don't believe there is any word which contains no vowels. There is a word "cwm" which appears to have no vowels. Actual, "w" can sometimes be used as a vowel, just like "y" but less frequent. shhhh!!! No but the Wik did....
crypt
gypsy
hymn
lynx
nymph
rhythm
syzygy
tryst
pwn
nth
crwth
cwm depends how you define vowel.
if you use the general definitions where a vowel is a letter sound with unrestricted airflow, as opposed to a consonant where you use your tongue and lips to restrict the airflow, then I can't think of any such words in English. maybe there are some languages that have "clicking" sounds or other noises as words which might be transliterated to english without the typical vowel letters of english. there are some languages like ancient hebrew which was written without any vowels at all (eventually vowel letters were added to the language). *nth (like to the nth power)
*psst (onomatopoeia - a hissing sound used to attract the attention of somebody)
*shhh (onomatopoeia - a sound used to tell somebody to quiet down or shut up)