which 6 letter word has no vowels?

Answer 1

Rhythm is the popular answer.

You could also have:
syzygy (a conjunction or opposition, especially of the sun or moon)
sylphs (imaginary spirits of the air)
crwths (ancient celtic musical instruments)

and slightly more silly:
grrrrr
psssst
zzzzzz

A 7 letter word with no vowels: rhythms

Answer 2

There are no 6-letter words in English with no vowels.

When I was at primary school, I was taught that there are five vowels: A, E, I, O and U. It was only as I grew older that I realised that this is nonsense; for instance, Y is frequently a vowel in English. My scepticism about there being only five vowels was confirmed when I studied phonetics and learned that other consonants can also function as vowels, such as M, N, L and (in many dialects of English) R. When this happens - as with the M in 'rhythm' - it is known as a vocalised consonant and is indicated in the international phonetic alphabet by a short vertical mark placed beneath the symbol. So the word 'rhythm' contains two vowels: a Y and a vocalised M.

Incidentally, 'crwth' is a Welsh word (not Scottish) and the plural is 'crythau' - not 'crwths'. In Welsh, W can be either a vowel or a semi-vowel, but not a consonant.

Answer 3

depends on whether you consider "y" a vowel: a,e,i,o,u and SOMETIMES y.

Therefore, if you don't consider "y" as a vowel there are: crypts, flybys, flysch, ghylls, glycyl, glyphs, lymphs, myrrhs, nymphs, psychs, rhythm, spryly, sylphs, sylphy, synchs, synths, syzygy, trysts, tsktsk


Teacher Knows Best
November 27th, 2006

When I was at school I had a bit of a problem with authority. I think this is something I got from my dad whom, to this day has never worked for anyone other than himself.

I challenged a lot of what the teachers told me, I dont know why I did it, but two specific instances come to mind.

I was approx seven years old when we were all sat in a circle whilst a teacher told us about vowels. She removed a five pound note from her pocket and passed it to the first person in the circle and said that he could keep the five pounds if he could tell her a word that DOESN’T contain a vowel. He couldn’t think of any and neither could anyone else in the circle. The teacher was clearly trying to make her point that there are no words in the english language that do not contain vowels. When the five pound note came to me I stood up and said the word “Rhythm” and then put the fiver in my pocket ;)

Bear in mind that at the start of this lesson we had to learn all of the vowels, and in fact, they were still in big letters on the blackboard as A E I O U.

So the teacher said that the letter Y is a type of vowel to some people and therefore my answer was incorrect and I had to give her the money back.

I can’t remember the exact exchange of words, but I do recall saying something like “You said a word with no vowels, not a word with no kind of vowels”. I also pointed to the blackboard that still had the five vowels on it as proof.

I have since been told that Y is sometimes known as a “semi-vowel”, other people call it an “honorary vowel”, but to be honest it had nothing to do with the five pounds, it was purely a principle thing.

Answer 4

I don't know why so many of your answerers have forgotten that "Y" is often used as a vowel - cry, sylph, etc. So "RHYTHM" has a vowel, which is "Y".

Y and W are sometimes called "auxiliary vowels" since they are usually consonants. The one partially correct answer you received above, the Welsh word with the W, is an example of a word where W is the vowel.

There are no non-onomatopoetic words without vowels, or you would not be able to pronounce them. Only vowels sounds cause you to open your mouth to let air out. All consonant sounds close off the air passages in some way. Therefore, a word without vowels would not be pronounceable.

[By non-onomatopoetic, I mean excepting quasi-words like "psst" and "shh," which are just sounds, not words.]

[Paul - 'strengths']

Answer 5

The problem with Syzygy is that the last two Y's are pronounced long , therefore this word has 2 vowels in it. Whereas in rhythm the Y is short and therefore not a vowel in this case.

Answer 6

Rhythm.

Rhythms is the longest word without a vowel (seven letters). Technically, however, the "y" acts as a vowel phonetically. I hope this helps.

Answer 7

Rhythm

Answer 8

You guys do understand that Y can also be a vowel right?


well, I have no idea but I did find this.

Answer 9

Rhythm

Answer 10

Rhythm