What is the longest word in English which doesn't contain a Vowel?

Answer 1

'Rhythm' is the most common word that we all know
BUT
the longest word is TWYNDYLLYNGS

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."

Answer 2

FIRST, those who think the answer is a word with a y or w are mistaken.

The y in "sky", "rhytm", etc. IS a vowel (not just a 'sorta-vowel', a real one!). In fact, whenever it stands for the same sound as might be indicated by some other vowel or combination of vowels (i, e, ee), it is serving as a vowel. Your grade school teacher told you "y is a vowel" to make matters simple. (It is often necessary to tell some lies while teaching a language!)

The problem is the same with "cwm" (a Welsh word pronounced "coom") in which the w is functioning as a vowel.

Actually, "y" functions as a vowel much more often than as a consonant, and w can be the equivalent of u (mostly in the combinations aw, ew, ow, which are equivalent to au, eu, ou)..
(compare http://alt-usage-english.org/excerpts/fxword00.html)

The basic rule is this -- y or w at the BEGINNING of a syllable are used as conanants, in the middle of end of of syllables they mark VOWELS.

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There ARE English words without vowel SOUNDS (and in which none of the letters indicates a vowel). They are various "interjections", such as the following:

brr
grr
bzz [though more often written "buzz"]
tsk, tsktsk
shh
hmm
psst
mm-hmm

Based on these, the longest (unless you just artificially extend another --psssst, shhhh, brrrr, etc) is "tsktsks", meaning "to say 'tsktsk'", which is listed in the Scrabble dictionary.

Answer 3

No english word doesn't contain a vowel.

Answer 4

I once read a puzzle book which stated that the slang word 'bzzzbzzz' which means 'gossip' could be found in a particular old dictionary, the name of which I can no longer remember. However, the word doesn't appear in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Answer 5

Longest word without a vowel: symphysy. Runners-up: nymphly, rhythms, gypsyfy, gypsyry. Excluding 'y': crwths

Answer 6

All words contain at least one vowel. That's what makes them words.

Answer 7

antidisabstablishanarism
but it contains a vowel

Answer 8

Rythm

Answer 9

Rhythm.

Answer 10

Syzygy is a good one, and it's fun to say