A word starting with U that is not vowel?

Question

I just though of 1; united.

Answer 1

Since "u" is always a vowel the word you might be looking for would be "unique."

Good Luck!!!

Answer 2

As others have said, the letter u *always* represents a vowel-sound, so there is no word that fits your description.

But perhaps what you are looking for is simply a word starting with u where the first SOUND in the word is not a vowel-sound, in which case "united" works, and so do quite a few others.

What I mean is this. The u in "united" makes the sound "yoo". Now the main part of that IS a vowel-sound -- "oo" -- but the first sound you hear is a consonant sound, of "y-". In other words, you could write the word phonetically as "yoonited". (Note that the LETTER y in English represents a vowel sound in most cases, EXCEPT when it appears at the beginning of a syllable.)

In fact, u at the beginning of words is OFTEN pronounced as "yoo":

other examples: unit(y), unique, uniform, ukelele, use, usury, ubiquitous

But, on the other hand, u at the beginning much more often makes the short vowel sound we can represent with "uh" (with no consonant sound at all), as in:

uncle, ugly, urn, up, unkind (and all the words that start with the prefix" un-" , meaning "not"), utter, udder, umbrella, us, ugh!

Answer 3

No words are vowels, so therefore any word starting with U would not be a vowel. If the question was "Is there a word that starts with U, where U is not a vowel," well I honestly can't think of one.

Answer 4

Your question makes no sense. The letter 'u' is a vowel.
And as for 'united' being an answer - where did you get that idea?

Answer 5

Ugh!

Answer 6

can't be unique, that's how you catch a rabbit, unique up on it.

Answer 7

What???