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VowelsEntire Wordall vowels, longest [L156,7-98,19-46,23-214,26-85,36-48,37-44]
common words: a, i, o, u (1-t)
uncommon words: euouae, aiaiai, aoaaoa, iaiiai (6-t)
three letter words, all 216 possible [6-154,11-185,215,20-156]all-vowel Hawaiian words [7-98]palindromic or tautonymic vowel sequence (the vowels alone read the same backward, or repeat), longest [37-97,WW52.2-18,WW53.4-76,WW53.4-91]
e.g. tootsie-wootsie
common word: alliterative
common word: combinatorial
reversed-vowel pair (two words whose vowel sequences are reversals) [WW52.4-77]
e.g. Brazil / Italy; France / Germany; Bangladesh / Grenada
Subset of Wordeach once [L160,23-214,26-197,27-23,30-146,149,33-271,35-213]
a. each vowel once, longest
common word: unsportsmanlike (15)
uncommon words: entwicklungsroman, subpostmastership, unaccomplishments, bromsulphthaleins, transcursorillest,
unsportsmanlikest, unsportsmanliness (17-t)
hyphenated word: thought-transcending (19)
phrases: carson smith mccullers, long streight, straught (20-t)
b. each vowel including y once, longest [2-64,33-170,TJ9-49]
common words: uncomplimentary, uncopyrightable (15-t)
uncommon words: hydrometallurgists, nonunderstandingly (18-t)
hyphenated word: hundred-and-forty-fifth (20)
phrase: florist's chrysanthemums (22)
c. each vowel once, shortest
common words: boileau, sequoia (7-t)
uncommon words: eunoia, euodia, ouijae (6-t)
phrase: Iouea (5)
d. each vowel including y once, shortest [33-170]
common words: buoyancies, eukaryotic (10-t)
uncommon words: oxyuridae, oxygeusia, dieulafoy, pailyeoun, tailyeour (9-t)
phrases: Eumyobia, Euryomia, Eydouxia, Joyeuxia (8-t)
each once in order [L160,31-37,115,32-262]
a. each vowel once in order, longest
common word: facetious (9)
uncommon word: gatheringground (15)
phrase: wrapped in thought (16)
b. each vowel including y once in order, longest [2-64,30-146,31-37,33-170,TJ9-49]
common word: facetiously (11)
uncommon word: halfseriously (13)
c. each vowel once in order, shortest
common word: facetious (9)
uncommon word: aerious (7)
d. each vowel including y once in order, shortest
common word: facetiously (11)
e. each vowel once in reverse order, longest
common word: subcontinental (14)
phrase: run or sing descant (16)
f. each vowel including y once in reverse order, longest [1-206,2-208]
phrases: phylum porifera, phylum rotifera (14-t)
g. each vowel once in reverse order, shortest [1-25,34-313]
common word: subcontinental (14)
uncommon words: muroidea, juloidea (8-t)
h. each vowel including y once in reverse order, shortest
phrase: syrup of ipecac (13)
i. in cyclic order (vowels in order when the word is read circularly) [38-283]
common word: isobutane
e.g. ventricornual
j. supervocalic sentence (uses each vowel exactly once, in order) [10-118]
e.g. Schmaltz's strength thrills throngs, sculpts rhythms
vowel string, longest [L177,7-140,20-176,25-185,36-264,37-22,34,38-216,265,39-122]
common word: queueing (5)
uncommon words: aiaiais, euouaes (6-t)
restricted numbers of vowels
a. containing one vowel, longest [L177,5-26,10-118,178]
common word: strengths (9)
uncommon word: shshshings (10)
b. containing two vowels, longest [L177,5-26,10-118,178]
common words: christchurch, spendthrifts (12-t)
uncommon word: schwarzschilds (14)
c. containing three vowels, longest
common words: bremsstrahlung, draftsmanships, forthrightness, sportsmanships (14-t)
uncommon word: strengthlessness (16)
hyphenated word: scritch-scratching (17)
d. containing four vowels, longest
common word: shortsightedness (16)
uncommon words: handcraftsmanships, strengthlessnesses, wirtschaftswunders (18-t)
hyphenated word: north-northwestwards (19)
phrase: from strength to strength (22)
e. containing five vowels, longest
common word: straightforwardness (19)
uncommon word: llanfairpwllgwyngyll (20)
phrase: go from strength to strength (24)
restricted vowel types
a. univocalic or containing one type of vowel [L173,23-214]
i. longest [33-224,34-27]
common word: relentlessnesses (16)
uncommon word: chrononhotonthologos (20)
phrase: too hot for or too hot to hold (23)
ii. longest, for each vowel [32-8,38-127]
see list Longest Word Containing One Type of Vowel for Each Vowel
iii. univocalic text (verse or prose using only one vowel) [6-170,11-163,27-80,31-8,33-202,41-137,IN5-103]
e.g. Persevere, ye perfect men, ever keep these precepts ten
iv. phonetic univocalic (all vowels the same letter, each with the same short or the same long sound) [47-289]
common word: afghan
common word: diminishing
b. containing two types of vowels, longest
common word: disinterestednesses (19)
uncommon word: nepparterrestaalplaatserretrappen (33)
phrase: to tell someone where he gets or to get off (34)
c. containing three types of vowels, longest
common words: buckminsterfullerene, electroencephalogram (20-t)
uncommon word: antidisestablishmentarianisms (29)
phrases: deep branch of the lateral plantar nerve, leishmania braziliensis braziliensis, not to know whether one is
coming or going, radix parasympathica ganglii ciliaris, ... and 2 others (34-t)
d. containing four types of vowels, longest
common word: electroencephalography (22)
uncommon words: floccinaucinihilipilifications, ethanolaminephosphotransferase (30-t)
phrases: croats, and Slovenes, Kingdom of the Serbs, erasable programmable read only memory, serbs, Croats, and
Slovenes, Kingdom of the, take the ground from under someone's feet, ... and 83 others (34-t)
e. containing five types of vowels, longest
common word: dichlorodifluoromethane (23)
uncommon word: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (34)
f. each twice [3-18,147,5-17,13-88,14-90,32-262,33-23,251,297,34-60,112,296,35-28,314]
g. triple supervocalic (each of AEIOU exactly three times, no other vowels) [46-271]
e.g. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
e.g. Equatorial Guinea Workers' Union
trigrams, all 216 possible [4-59,124,6-83,8-153]tetragrams, all 625 possible [7-140,8-21,88,20-156]all 120 possible orders [2-208,3-18,8-20,9-92,10-84,12-92,122,152,18-154,20-156,213,26-195,30-271,32-170]
a. all 720 orders of AEIOUY [TJ9-47,TJ9-57]
e.g. half-seriously (AEIOUY)
all five vowels as one consecutive block [38-216]
e.g. Taeiouihra (AEIOU as one block)
minimum spanning letter set (smallest set of letters present in every word of a collection; defines the vowels) [48-147]
e.g. add, coo, id, he, up, by ... : no letter set smaller than AEIOUY meets every word
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