No Vowels, No Problem: Scrabble Words With Only Consonants (2024)

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No Vowels, No Problem: Scrabble Words With Only Consonants? ›

What word has only consonants and no vowels? BRR, BRRR, CRWTH, CRWTHS, CWM, CWMS HM, HMM, NTH, PFFT, PHT, PSST — these are short words containing no vowels—not even Y—that are acceptable in Scrabble.

More than 120 Scrabble words can be spelled without a vowel. However, the bad news is that the vast majority of these words require you to have the letter "Y" (or two).

A consonant is a speech sound that is not a vowel. It also refers to letters of the alphabet that represent those sounds: Z, B, T, G, and H are all consonants. Consonants are all the non-vowel sounds, or their corresponding letters: A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y are not consonants. In hat, H and T are consonants.

Almost every 5-letter word with no vowels in English contains at least one Y. In fact, there are only five words on this list without a Y. Crwth and cwtch are Welsh words that English has adopted. Grrrl and grrls are slang words, and phpht is a commonly accepted onomatopoeic word.

"The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." The alphabet's 26 letters cannot be put together to form a single English word. The 26-letter non-word "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz" is the closest word to having all of the alphabet's letters.

What two letter Scrabble words have no vowels? ›

BRR, BRRR, CRWTH, CRWTHS, CWM, CWMS HM, HMM, NTH, PFFT, PHT, PSST — these are short words containing no vowels—not even Y—that are acceptable in Scrabble.

All words labeled as a part of speech (including those listed of foreign origin, and as archaic, obsolete, colloquial, slang, etc.) are permitted with the exception of the following: words always capitalized, abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes standing alone, words requiring a hyphen or an apostrophe.

There are no 'traditional' English words without both vowels or the letter 'y'. There are abbreviations such as “TV” as well as more modern words used in direct speech such as “psst” and “hmm”.

Shh, psst, and hmm do not have vowels, either vowel symbols or vowel sounds.

Twyndyllyngs, at 12 letters long, is the longest word in the English language without any of the five main vowels.

For consonant-consonant, BY and MY are common words and SH, HM, MM are all sounds where each word starts with the letter the previous word ends with.

The longest word in English without a vowel, in reasonably common usage, is the seven letter word RHYTHMS (yes rhythm can be pluralised). There is an even longer word: TWYNDYLLYNGS (12 letters) but that is so obscure it hardly qualifies - and it's much easier to say and write “twins”.