what words don't have a vowel?

Answer 1

Hmmmpf!

Answer 2

The Letter Y have never been a Vowel or Semi Vowel.

There have only been 5 Vowels AEIOU.

So words like MY TRY CRY DRY BY WHY

Answer 3

There are none. A word without vowel sounds would be unpronounceable. In the examples most people cited, "y" functions as a vowel. Someone else cited some Welsh words in which "w" is used as a vowel.

From http://www.randomhouse.com/wotd/index.pperl?date=19971205

There are two main definitions of vowel: the phonetic sense, the short version of which is 'a speech sound produced without obstructing the flow of air from the lungs', and the orthographic sense, 'a letter or other symbol representing a vowel sound, as, in English, a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y and w'.

Words with vowels other than the five main orthographic vowels are common: my, by, try, myrrh, rhythm, and so forth using y; words with w as the vowel, usually borrowings from Welsh, where w is a vowel pronounced roughly "oo," are rare, but cwm (a bowl-shaped mountain basin) and crwth (an ancient Celtic stringed instrument) are two examples one sees. None of these words are words without vowels--they all have vowel sounds, and they all use letters that can be used as vowels. Sometimes, however, people claim that the only vowels in English are a, e, i, o, and u; this claim is not true.

Slightly more interesting words without orthographic vowels are those written forms that represent words with pronounced vowels, but don't have them written: abbreviations such as Mr. or Mrs. (or Ms, not an abbreviation) or TV, or other types of words such as nth. These all are pronounced with vowel sounds, but they don't have orthographic vowels. Some people choose to consider these "words without vowels" accordingly, although they do have vowel sounds; others will say something like, "They're just abbreviations, so they don't count."

Still more interesting vowel-less words are those without phonetic vowels. These are typically interjections, such as psst!, shh, tsk tsk (which usually represents two consecutive alveolar clicks), mm-hmm, and the like. While these pretty clearly do not have vowels, however you want to define them, the skeptic is likely to say, "But that's not a real word."

Answer 4

well , you have to know that technically there is no word that doesn`t contain a vowel .. and also , I have to say that Vowels are A,E,I,O,U and Y,W are semi-vowels .. they are not constant letters .. because, when they come in a word , they compose the sound shape of this word...
but un-technically , you will find some expressions that doesn`t have vowels just like
Shhh ! (to express shut up)
CD ! Not written vowels

Answer 5

To get technical, there isn't a single word that doesn't have a vowel...Look at the word pry. I have a 1st grade flash back that the vowels are aeiou, and sometimes y. In the case of the words why, pry, ply, lymph, nymph, my, fly, sky, rhythm and whatever, the one of the letters considered as a consonant is USED as a vowel.

Answer 6

Y is a semi-vowel in English so saying that words like cry don't contain vowels is not strictly true...

Answer 7

you can't make a word without a vowel a e i o u and sometimes y y is a vowel

Answer 8

there are not many words that do not contain vowels because as you are reading my response to your quesrtion you can see that almost each word that i write has atleast one or more vowel within it. so to answer your question, i actually can't because there are too many words in the english language that contain a vowel. I hope i helped you out somehow.

Answer 9

according to education, vowels are A,E,I,O and U as well as sometimes Y.

Y is classed as a vowel when is place within a word to create a vowel like sound such a lymph...where it creates a soft "i" sound.

When that begin with Y then it is not classed as a vowel.

Answer 10

Why. That is one word that doesn't have a vowel.

Answer 11

The letter `y` is an honorary vowel.