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Vowel Words FAQ

1. What words use all five vowels?

Unfortunately, most of the words that contain all five vowels are too long to be useful in Scrabble and Words With Friends. They include unequivocally, abstemious, and unquestionably. Eulogia, miaoued, and miauos all use all five vowels and are eminently playable.

2. Are there five or seven vowels?

When it comes to speaking, there could be as many as 20! Even in writing, there could be more than A—E—I—O—U—Y—W. Archaeology, for example, could treat the ae as a single vowel similar to the ä in German. Generally, for crossword games, A—E—I—O—U are considered vowels, and the other letters are considered consonants.

3. What is the longest word that consists of only vowels?

The words with only A—E—I—O—U that are legal to play are all short vowel words of two or three letters. Examples include aa, ae, and eau. If you include Y, then you can get long vowel words like ayaya. You might read about other long vowel words, like a medieval musical term, euouae, but these are not legal in the Official Scrabble Players’ Dictionary.

I’ve actually been asked this question before: so I wrote a script to find all the answers!

import re

def read_dictionary(filename):
    dict = set()
    with open(filename, 'r') as f:
        for w in f:
            dict.update([w.rstrip().lower()])
    return dict

def find_omnivocalics(dict, vowels="aeiou"):
    assert len(vowels) >= 2
    omnivocalics = []
    for w in dict:
        for m in re.finditer(vowels[0], w):
            omnivocalic = True
            for v in vowels[1:]:
                if w[:m.start()] + v + w[m.end():] not in dict:
                    omnivocalic = False
                    break
            if omnivocalic:
                omnivocalics.append(w[:m.start()] + '*' + w[m.end():])
    omnivocalics.sort(key=lambda item: (len(item), item))
    print(", ".join(omnivocalics))

Using the TWL Scrabble word list returns the following 84 word sets (sorted by length):

*n, *s, m*, b*d, b*g, b*s, b*t, d*n, f*n, f*r, g*t, h*p, h*t, m*d, m*g, n*b, p*p, p*t, r*m, t*n, t*t, b*ds, b*gs, b*ll, b*nd, b*ts, c*re, c*te, d*ns, d*re, f*ns, h*ck, h*ed, h*ts, l*st, m*ds, m*gs, m*ll, m*re, m*ss, m*te, n*bs, p*ck, p*le, p*ns, p*ps, p*ts, r*ck, r*ms, t*le, t*ns, t*ts, b*lls, b*nds, c*res, c*tes, d*lly, h*cks, h*llo, m*lls, m*res, m*ssy, m*tes, p*cks, p*les, r*cks, t*les, b*lled, d*cker, h*llos, m*ssed, m*sses, p*tted, r*cked, b*gging, b*lling, bl*nder, d*ckers, h*lloed, h*lloes, m*ssing, p*tting, r*cking and h*lloing.

Obviously, some of the words used are obscure. The best examples, in my opinion, are:

* blander/blender/blinder/blonder/blunder
* patting/petting/pitting/potting/putting
* masses/messes/misses/mosses/musses
* packs/pecks/picks/pocks/pucks
* last/lest/list/lost/lust
* bag/beg/big/bog/bug

Three of the examples above also allow the letter y, but use obscure words: m*, b*s and h*p. Turns out this sort of thing is charmingly called ‘vowel movements‘. See Vowel cascades, vowel movements and di-odes for an article about this with more examples.

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