Those aren’t really English “words” though. There’s some old welsh in there which actually used W as a double U. And then some onomatopoeia, which while defined in some dictionaries, aren’t really words anymore than abbreviations like CIA or FCC are words.
Dry, crypt, dryly. It’s crypty a word…
Y is a vowel.
Ah, when i went to school it was only A.e.i.o.u that were the vowels.
Y is only sometimes a vowel: when it forms a vowel sound in a word.
In the case of “dry, crypt and dryly”, we could perhaps spell them “drie, cript and drielee” if we wish to see where those more familiar vowel sounds exist in those words.
Yeah, I’ve been reading up on it since the previous commentator drew my attention to it. Odd the bits of eduction you miss in life.
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Fly, try and ply
A cwm (pronounced /ˈkuːm/) is used in English in a technical geographical or mountaineering context to mean a deep hollow in a mountainous area
Uhuh…
Tsk is an onomatopoeia for disapproval
Hmm, pst, grr, mmm, all acceptable words in Scrabble https://scrabble.merriam.com/words-without-vowels
Ply?
But only if you reject the “sometimes y” clause.
rhythm.
I think there might be a sometimes w clause too. But any w words I can think of have a y anyway
W is a sometimes vowel in Welsh. There are a few Welsh words that are valid in Scrabble dictionaries, which is really the only metric that matters. There are also several onomatopoeias that are valid Scrabble words, like mmm or brr or tsktsks. That last one is the only 7 letter word with no vowels or sometimes vowels.
Maaan, everything is a vowel if you just Welsh it hard enough.
What?
Also by/dry/cry/pry etc. There are loads if you exclude y as a vowel.
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So whether hospital has vowels depends on what country you are in and if you have insurance? /J
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I was just learning about this today in response to this post! I had no idea that the definition of a vowel is based on what sound you actually make, rather than it having anything to do with what you write.
It’s kind of weird that it’s not taught that way in schools. Like, you’re just told a/e/I/o/u are the vowels and left to get on with it. Seems to me that could just be changed to “by the way it’s a/e/I/o/u/y/w, off you go”.
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IDK what they’re teaching these days, but back in my day (😭) it was
AEIOU and sometimes Y
Hmm, not sure if there are.
Rhythm technically
Rhythm’s not a vowelless word.
Rhythm is a dancer.
Welp, now that’s gonna be stuck in my head for at least a few days! At least it’s a great song.
Try, cry, pry, wry… <- Except that in these instances, Y is the vowel. Unless you’re playing Wheel of Fortune, where Ys are always counted as consonants and cost nothing to play.
Sequoia 😌
Well done
Education (´･ᴗ･ ` )
Kyrgyz… styrn.
Rhythm !!
Only by wheel of fortune rules.
Fun fact: In Dutch ‘vowels’ is the same word as is used for ‘streetstones’ (klinkers), so if you ask this question in Dutch, the answer is ‘dirtroad’. 😅
This is a very dutch reply, 🤣.
Rythm
Y is a vowel in rhythm
Haiti?
Прст
