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Pages in category «English words that use all vowels in alphabetical order»
The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
A
- abstemious
- abstemiously
- abstenious
- abstentious
- acedious
- acerbitous
- acheilous
- acheirous
- adecticous
- aerious
- affectious
- affectiously
- anemious
- annelidous
- anteriour
- anteriourly
- arsenious
- arterious
- avenious
B
- bacterious
C
- caesious
F
- facetious
- facetiously
- fracedinous
L
- larcenious
M
- majestious
- materious
P
- placentious
T
- tragedious
- transhemizygous
- transtendinous
- travertinous
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- English terms by orthographic property
I wrote this simple Python script to analyze the official Scrabble dictionary for words that contain each of the vowels and the letter ‘y’, as you requested:
vowels = set('aeiouy')
with open('TWL06.txt') as file:
for line in file:
word = line.strip().lower()
letters = set(word)
if vowels <= letters:
print word
The result is below, sorted alphabetically (156 words).
I did the same thing, but omitted ‘y’. You can see those results (1905 words) here: http://www.michaelfogleman.com/static/files/vowels.txt
abstemiously
actinomycetous
adventitiously
aeronautically
ambidextrously
aneuploidy
antiregulatory
audiometry
authoritatively
autoeciously
autotetraploidy
autotypies
basidiomycetous
bimolecularly
buoyancies
cleistogamously
coeducationally
coequality
coevolutionary
communicatively
conceptuality
consequentially
consuetudinary
corynebacterium
coulometrically
countercyclical
counterrallying
cyanobacterium
cytomegalovirus
daguerreotypies
daguerreotyping
daguerreotypist
delusionary
denunciatory
devolutionary
documentarily
educationally
efficaciously
elocutionary
encouragingly
equationally
equilibratory
equivocality
equivocally
eudiometrically
eugeosynclinal
eukaryotic
eulogistically
euphonically
euphorically
evolutionarily
evolutionary
exclusionary
facetiously
gelatinously
genitourinary
gesticulatory
grandiloquently
gregariously
hellaciously
heterosexuality
homosexuality
hyaluronidase
hyaluronidases
hypercautious
hyperfastidious
hyperfunctional
ichthyofaunae
immunoassayable
immunotherapy
importunately
incommensurably
inefficaciously
instantaneously
insubordinately
insurrectionary
intravenously
magniloquently
mendaciously
miscellaneously
monumentality
mouthwateringly
mycobacterium
nefariously
neurofibrillary
neurogenically
neurologically
neuropathically
neuropsychiatry
neuroradiology
neurotically
oleaginously
ostentatiously
outwearying
overmaturity
oxyuriases
paramyxoviruses
perspicaciously
pertinaciously
phenylketonuria
phenylthiourea
phenylthioureas
pneumatolytic
polybutadiene
polybutadienes
praseodymium
praseodymiums
precariously
precautionary
psychosexuality
questionably
questionary
radiolucency
renunciatory
revolutionarily
revolutionary
sacrilegiously
semidocumentary
sequaciously
simultaneously
subordinately
subventionary
subversionary
successionally
sulfinpyrazone
sulfinpyrazones
superloyalist
superloyalists
supermajority
supernormality
supersonically
tautonymies
temerariously
tenaciously
turbomachinery
uncomplimentary
uncongeniality
uncopyrightable
unemotionally
unemployability
unequivocably
unequivocally
unexceptionably
unextraordinary
uninformatively
unintentionally
unquestionably
unreasoningly
unrecognizably
unrevolutionary
ventriloquially
veraciously
vexatiously
vituperatory
volumetrically
voyeuristically
Eunoia, at six letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all five main vowels. Seven letter words with this property include adoulie, douleia, eucosia, eulogia, eunomia, eutopia, miaoued, moineau, sequoia, and suoidea.
What words do not contain vowels?
Words with no vowels Dr., nth (as in “to the nth degree”), and TV also do not contain any vowel symbols, but they, like cwm and crwth, do contain vowel sounds. Shh, psst, and hmm do not have vowels, either vowel symbols or vowel sounds. There is some controversy whether they are in fact “words,” however.
What word uses all 5 vowels in order?
Five Vowels. What word contains the five vowels (a, e, i, o, u) in the right order? There are several of which the best known are abstemious and facetious. Others include the rare botanical words acheilous, anemious and caesious.
What is the least common vowel?
uOperating under the assumption that y and w are not under consideration, the least-used vowel in the English language is u with a relative frequency of 1.487% (utilizing as reference material the Concise Oxford Dictionary and statistics provided by its compilers).
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.
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.
Hereof, what are the 5 vowels which word in English has all the 5 vowels?
What word contains the five vowels (a, e, i, o, u) in the right order? There are several of which the best known are abstemious and facetious. Others include the rare botanical words acheilous, anemious and caesious.
Secondly, what 6 letter word has no vowels?
There are four six-letter words with no vowel except ‘y’: rhythm, spryly, sylphy (of or like a slender graceful girl or young woman) and syzygy (a technical term used in astronomy). Rhythm can have an ‘s’ added in the plural to make a seven-letter word without a vowel.
Why Y is not a vowel?
English uses the letter «Y» to represent multiple different sounds. Some of those sounds are vowels (e.g. baby) and some aren’t (e.g. yes). No letter is a vowel, because vowel and consonant are types of sound humans can make. Letters are symbols on paper and not sounds.
Do all words need a vowel?
Words in English need vowels to break up the sounds that consonants make. So, while every word has to have a vowel, not every word has to have a consonant. There are strings of consonants that are sometimes written like full words, like “hmm.” However, these are just sounds rather than actual words.