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2006-06-14 03:55:40 · 10 answers · asked by jredfearn08 4 in Arts & Humanities History

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the longest words containing the six vowels in alphabetical order are PANCREATICODUODENOSTOMY and PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY

The longest common word without an A, E, I, O, or U is RHYTHMS, but these additional words appear in W2: SYMPHYSY, NYMPHLY, GYPSYRY, GYPSYFY. The OED2 has TWYNDYLLYNG(S). And WPPWRMWSTE (in the OED) goes nine letters without an A, E, I, O, or U; GLYCYRRHIZIN (a constituent of licorice) goes eight letters without A, E, I, O, or U. (In all these words, "Y" is a vowel.)

2006-06-14 04:28:14 · answer #1 · answered by stefschmid 2 · 5 1

Twyndyllyngs is the longest word in English that doesn't contain one of the five vowels (AEIOU). It comes from Welsh and is obviously rare, but it does appear in the Oxford English Dictionary.

It turns out that "twyndyllyng" (singular) is a 15th century spelling of the word "twinling," which means, in modern English, "twin."

2006-06-14 04:01:38 · answer #2 · answered by drlyncsy 2 · 0 0

The longest common word without any of the five vowels is RHYTHMS, but there are longer rare words: SYMPHYSY, NYMPHLY, GYPSYRY, GYPSYFY, and TWYNDYLLYNGS.

2006-06-14 04:01:17 · answer #3 · answered by nosivaj 4 · 0 0

there isn't such a word. No word in the english language has no vowells.

2006-06-14 03:58:38 · answer #4 · answered by Ath 2 · 0 0

rhythm

2006-06-14 07:55:40 · answer #5 · answered by samanthajanecaroline 6 · 0 0

rhythm

2006-06-14 03:58:07 · answer #6 · answered by Robin the Electrocuted 5 · 0 0

rythyms

2006-06-14 03:59:16 · answer #7 · answered by fakey51 2 · 0 0

bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz

2006-06-14 03:59:42 · answer #8 · answered by predictable 2 · 0 0

zyzygy?

2006-06-14 03:58:28 · answer #9 · answered by desperatehw 7 · 0 0

why?

2006-06-14 03:58:24 · answer #10 · answered by Celestial Dragon 3 · 0 0

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