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Find me a word that contains 7 times as many consonants as it does vowels.
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posted by ToM at
1:15 PM
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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15 Comments:
rhythmic! unless you count the y as a vowel....... other than that i have no idea
There are lots of 7 letter word with one vowel. I decided not to count Y as a vowel. Out of about 200+ I picked about 60 to list here....
Blackfly
Brightly
Catchfly
Churchly
Cryingly
Cyclings
Cyclists
Decrypts
Drywalls
Flybelts
Flyblown
Flyblows
Flypasts
Flyspeck
Hydrants
Knightly
Promptly
Psychics
Rhythmic
Schlepps
Schlocks
Schmocks
Scrabbly
Scraggly
Scratchy
Scything
Shrewdly
Shylocks
Shysters
Skyjacks
Skylarks
Skylight
Skywalks
Skywards
Slightly
Spryness
Spyglass
Stanchly
Standbys
Straggly
Strength
Stretchy
Strictly
Strongly
Strongyl
Swingbys
Symmetry
Sympathy
Sympatry
Symphony
Symptoms
Synonyms
Tryingly
Trysters
Trysting
Tryworks
Twelfths
Watchcry
Wrynecks
Excuse me,I meant 8 letter words (7 consonants + 1 vowel)
STRENGTH
Even better is STRENGTHS 8 consonants, 1 vowel.
Ok if you want to count Y as a vowel, the list is much shorter
word
BORSCHTS
PSCHENTS
SCHLEPPS
SCHLOCKS
SCHLUMPS
SCHMALTZ
SCHMUCKS
SCHNAPPS
SCHTICKS
SPRIGHTS
STRENGTH
TSKTSKED
TWELFTHS
STRENGTH
has 7 consonants and 1 vowel
Good work Ragnot!
How did you find all the words and how long did it take you
Y is not a vowel, FOOL, it's a consonant
Why would you cound 'Y' as a vowel?
If your trying to make yourself sound more intelligent, its not working.
if you remember anything from grammar school, the vowels were taught as: a,e,i,o,u "AND" sometimes y. So technically y is considered a vowel at times.
To Anon:
How long did it take me to find 205+ words?
Only a couple of minutes. I built a word database from about half a dozen dictionary.
I made a query to find 8 letters words. Then a function to count vowels and consonants.
Here's the function. I found a few words that had 10-11 consonants with only one vowel.
Function vowels(w) As Integer
L = Len(w)
c = 0
For i = 1 To L
t = Mid(w, i, 1)
If InStr(1, "aeiou", t) Then c = c + 1
Next i
vowels = c
End Function
I think there are about 17,000 unique words included. I have used the database for several years. My favorite process is to unscrable words.
intelligent Ragknot u so intelliegnt thanks for sharing this
The letter 'Y' has never been taught as a vowel... I dont know what they teach you in america but the rest of the world doesnt consider it a vowel!
If they don't teach Y as having the capability of being a vowel and every word must have a vowel, where is the vowel in 'why', 'by', 'rhythm', or 'cry'? Consider that the first time you have been taught that Y can be a vowel, lesson learned.
OK, so yes, STRENGTH was the word I was looking for. Interesting answers though.
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