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list of four-letter words with three vowels

All the 4-letter words that have 3 vowels sound funny:
• aero
• aeon
• aery
• ahoy
• aura
• auto
• ease
• easy
• euro
• iota
• obey
• oily
• ooze
Can you think of any more?


By Matt Maldre on Jan 21, 06 | 8:17 am  |   [90737] Hits  |   permalink

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Here's a bonus five-letter word with four vowels and one consonant:
• audio

Posted by: spudart on Jan 21, 06 | 8:19 am


I case you're wondering where I came up with this list. I was laying in bed thinking about how the word "euro" sounded funny. I realized that it has three vowels in it. This list came from looking in the dictionary for all the words that start with two vowels. So I looked up the words that start with aa, ae, ai, ao, au, ea, ee, ei, eo, eu, ia, ie, ii, io, iu, oa, oe, oi, oo, ou, ua, ue, ui, uo, and uu.

HOORAY FOR VOWELS!

Posted by: spudart on Jan 21, 06 | 8:23 am


O RLY?

Posted by: tom sherman on Jan 21, 06 | 8:05 pm


sometimes "y"

Posted by: Tom on Jan 22, 06 | 6:32 am


your

Posted by: Tom on Jan 22, 06 | 6:33 am


I know that's wrong, but I can't think of any more, so I cheated! LOL!

Posted by: Tom on Jan 22, 06 | 6:42 am


ikea

Posted by: on Jan 22, 06 | 10:46 am


these are helpful for those times in scrabble when you have all vowels. but what about when you have no vowels?

Posted by: lisa on Jan 23, 06 | 9:24 am


are there any words that have just consonants and no vowels? TV is not considered a word by Scrabble®.

Posted by: spudart on Jan 23, 06 | 9:54 am


As far as I know [and remember from 9th grade English] there are no words in English that have no vowels, except invented words and abbreviations [like nth or Mrs.]

Posted by: Tom on Jan 23, 06 | 12:35 pm


HM expressing thought (hmm)
MM expressing satisfaction
SH used to urge silence (shh)

These three are 'words' according to some scrabble site I found.

Has anyone every heard this word?
PNEUMONO­ULTRA­MICRO­SCOPIC­SILICO­VOLCANO­CONIOSIS

This is the longest word in any english dictionary. I wonder if that would fit on a scrabble board?

Posted by: Andy on Jan 26, 06 | 10:39 am


not only would it not fit on a scrabble board, there also would not be enough 0's available to make it. silly neen.


Posted by: lisa on Jan 26, 06 | 12:34 pm


Your scrabble prowess is quite
evident.

Here is a tidbit that might come in handy... the word 'CWM' is an acceptable scrabble word that has no vowels.



Posted by: Andy on Jan 26, 06 | 1:06 pm


what does that mean?

Posted by: lisa on Jan 26, 06 | 6:31 pm


great piece of work

Posted by: vimal on Mar 24, 06 | 6:54 am


The word "idea" has just 1 consonant and 3 vowels. Also, "Rhythm" is a word with no actual Vowels, that is, (a,e,i,o,u).

Posted by: Neil on Mar 25, 06 | 8:03 am


Hi,
If you were looking for words not containing any actual vowels(a,e,i,o,u), why can't we consider the word "why" itself?

Posted by: Sahil Sakhuja on Apr 17, 06 | 12:50 pm


I need 4 letter words having no vowels.
As many as you can.

Thanks

Posted by: Nitin Kashyap on Jul 27, 06 | 3:19 am


Kadungog nako ana na longest word oi...
dili mana masigo sa scrabble...
adik adik pud ka da....


Posted by: jay on Sep 03, 06 | 2:22 am


adik man ang ga comments ato sa longest word....
adik
adik.


Posted by: jay on Sep 03, 06 | 2:23 am


What about aria?

Posted by: trickfred on Sep 15, 06 | 9:21 am


why
cry
my
shy
fly
try
fry

i know some people think y is a vowel but that's the best can come up with

Posted by: fishfingaz on Nov 29, 06 | 9:00 am


Nice try fishfingazon, but those all have three letters with just one vowel. How about four letter words with three vowels?

Posted by: spudart on Nov 29, 06 | 11:07 pm


idea...

Posted by: Darcy on Jan 07, 07 | 5:23 pm


I downloaded a list of english words from Oxford University and wrote a short program to read through it looking for 4 letter words with 3 vowels:

Laue
ague
aide
aile
alai
alia
aloe
aqua
area
aria
aura
auto
beau
ease
eave
idea
iota
lieu
oboe
ooze
ouzo
urea
viii


Posted by: Raging Porridge on Jan 24, 07 | 11:20 am


Here's the list if you also consider "y" a vowel:

Laue
Maya
Mayo
ague
ahoy
aide
aile
airy
alai
alia
aloe
aqua
area
aria
aura
auto
away
beau
buoy
ease
easy
eave
eyed
idea
iota
joey
kayo
lieu
obey
oboe
oily
okay
ooze
ouzo
quay
soya
suey
urea
viii
yeah
year
yoga
yogi
yoke
yore
your
yule

Posted by: Raging Porridge on Jan 24, 07 | 2:06 pm


thats pretty sick, nyone know the coolest words ever?

Posted by: Andy on Feb 11, 07 | 12:16 pm


Does anyone know a four letter work that is spelled _ae_ I can't figure it out. "ae" is in the middle.

Posted by: la on Feb 14, 07 | 8:40 pm


check out my book ' Alien winds'
it contains some fine specimens with vowel restrictions. example lipograms,
bivocalics,univocalics etc.

here is an example of three vowel prose
each word contains only 3 vowels a,i,e

nearing terrestrial America
Freakish elliptcial machines terminate massive raider satellites,shattering
alien barriers.

Posted by: Tony Follari on Mar 08, 07 | 11:07 pm


Wow Tony, that has to be one of the most unique uses of the a, i, and e vowels.

Posted by: spudart on Mar 09, 07 | 12:14 am


How about:

etui
ogee
alee


Posted by: jyxxer on Jul 11, 07 | 11:36 pm


i need a 4 letters word without using a,e,i,o,u

Posted by: bhumika on Jul 20, 07 | 9:19 am


list 20 words without vowels

Posted by: bhumika on Jul 20, 07 | 9:21 am


crypt
gypsy
nymph
lynx

are some words in vowels

Posted by: bhumika on Jul 20, 07 | 9:24 am


Hear are some replys to you last emails
Myth and hymn are two four letter words
using the unofficial vowel 'y'

there are only about 50 to 100 word's containing only 'y' vowel

I wrote a poem in 1999 containing most of the ideal data.
here it is:


Sky myth

Fly by rhythym my nymphs
Slyphs try my sky hymn
fly,fly try my tryst
try my dry myrrh ,by thy crypt
Sylphs shyly cry ,why myrrh
Why fly by crypt?

(c)1999 Tony Follari



Posted by: Tony Follari on Jul 21, 07 | 6:45 am


Thank you for sharing that Tony! Maybe your name should be TNY FLLRY

Posted by: spudart on Jul 21, 07 | 3:00 pm


hey thanx for helping i am going 2 tell everyone about this ok lol byeeee???....=-p

Posted by: lolo on Mar 30, 08 | 2:57 pm


erm, ive got an absolute beauty :

the name 'atreiou' contains all five vowels, in the right order and is an awesome sounding name...

'a-trey-oo'

it's the name of the boy plainsmen warrior in the film never ending story - i used it as a gamin name for years until i recently realised that fact about the voewls which was awesome cos i've always loved the name on so many levels and then to realise something as unique and meaningful as that only made it all the more amazing....

p.s. - how many people do u know who know that? even scrabble players...?

Posted by: rob green on Apr 28, 08 | 7:25 am


recently realised that fact about the voewls which was awesome cos i've always loved the name on so many levels and then to realise something as unique and meaningful as that only made it all the more amazing

Posted by: praveen on Jan 06, 09 | 9:30 pm


oboe, epee

Posted by: sam on Apr 11, 10 | 7:53 pm


good thinking....make spellings with vowels...

Posted by: ami.bavishi@rediffmail.com on Mar 12, 11 | 1:31 pm


here we go
spy
shy
sky
sly
say
sty


Posted by: sea captainlemo on Apr 04, 11 | 1:24 pm


Who knows a 4 letter word with ai in the middle?

Posted by: Bob on Jun 16, 11 | 10:05 am


Hey, i need a 4 letter word with ai in the middle.

Posted by: Bob on Jun 16, 11 | 10:08 am


bob,
bail, fail, jail, mail, nail, rail, sail, tail, wail, bait, gait, wait

Posted by: spudart on Jun 16, 11 | 10:23 am


Thanks!

Posted by: Bob on Jun 16, 11 | 7:38 pm


Iowa is a 4 letter word with 3 vowels Iowa also is the only state that starts with 2 vowels

Posted by: John Lumadue on Dec 01, 11 | 3:28 am


'Hey, i need a 4 letter word with ai in the middle'

bain, pain, gain, wain


Posted by: Tom on Dec 01, 11 | 3:04 pm


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