How many vowels are in the ABC?

Answer 1

Three Letter Words Containing Only Vowels

• Aye
• Yea
• oye
• eye

I'm sure YOU must realise that y is a consonant not a vowel!

what about IOU. or the french for yes, OUI.

EAU french for water

Techinically y is both a consonant and a vowel.

Answer 2

In the English language, there are five main vowels: A E I O U and sometimes Y. Eg. In 'cycle' or 'baby' Y acts as a vowel but in 'yell' or 'yes' Y acts as a consonant. There are 12 monophthongs and 8 diphthongs make up for total of 20 vowels.

Answer 3

I'll make a list of words without vowels:

1. by
2. cry
3. Dry
4. fry
5. my
6. myrrh
7. Myth, Myths
8. pry
9. Rhythm, Rhythms
10. shy
11. Sky
12. spry
13. Sty
14. Thy
15. Try
16. why

Answer 4

English vowel types are back, front, and rounded. Back vowels are a, o and u; front vowels are e and i; rounded vowels are o and u. The designations "long" and "short" are not suited to English vowels, although they are used commonly enough.

Answer 5

The alphabet has 5 vowels :

1. a

2. e

3. i

4. o

5. u

Answer 6

The English inventory icludes six shor vowels (all pure), thirteen relatively long (five pure vowels and eight diphthongs), and one borderline case - /æ/ - sometimes long in certain contexts

Answer 7

Ad, am, an, as, at, ax, ex, id, if, in, is, it, of, oh, on, or, ox, up and us are 2 letter words. They begin with a vowel.

Answer 8

how many monothongs are in long vowel