English words without vowels

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English orthography typically represents vowel sounds with the five conventional vowel letters ⟨a, e, i, o, u⟩. The letter ⟨y⟩ is largely recognized as being a vowel in specific contexts, though often disregarded when talking about vowelless words, which typically focus on the absence of the main five. A word with ⟨y⟩, but no other vowel letters, may thus be considered vowelless in this context. To a lesser degree, the letter ⟨w⟩ can act as a vowel in a narrow subset of loanwords. Outside of abbreviations, there are a handful of words in English that do not have vowels, either because the vowel sounds are not written with vowel letters or because the words themselves are pronounced without vowel sounds.

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