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"Y" is a consonant in the word "chimney". The letter "Y" only acts as a vowel when there are no true vowels (a, e, i, o, u) present.
the word "what" has four letters with one vowel - as does "word".......
It's a consonant. Only A, E, I, O, and U are vowels. Y is sometimes used as one, as well.
Blanket, country, dolphin, endless, friends, forward, gravity, harmony, history, hundred, husband and kingdom contain only two vowels. Additional words include lobster, monster, nothing, perfect, problem, pumpkin, respect, seventy, student, whisper and working.
Some five letter words with only one vowel are:berthbirchbirthblendblindblondblownbrownchampchickchirpchurnclampclerkclickclockclothclumpcrownditchdrilldrinkdrolldrownfifthflirtfrontgirthglassglintgrassgrindhatchhitchknackknockknownshirtshortslackslantslickslothslumpspellspillsportspurnstampstandstartstringthingthirsttrust
The letter "Z" is different from the others because it is the only consonant that is positioned at the end of the alphabet, while "A," "F," and "E" are all vowels or letters closer to the beginning. Additionally, "A" and "E" are vowels, while "F" is a consonant, making "Z" distinct in both its placement and its classification.
No a W is never a vowel. The only vowels are A,E,I,O,U and sometimes Y no, there are only five vowels in the English alphabet: A, E, I, O, U; once in a while though we use Y as a vowel as in the word FLY
W is a consonant The only vowels are a,e,i,o,and u and sometimes y
In the English language the only letter that can be considered a consonant or a vowel is the letter Y. The letter W is a consonant.
The first name has 3 vowels and 7 consonants and in the second name there are only 2 vowels and 3 consonants, the middle name consists of only the consonant 'B' which means that therefore the name Rutherford B Hayes has 5 vowels and 11 consonants, so there are less vowels that consonants.In this context the letter 'y' is not considered a vowel.It is only considered and vowel in words like hymn and mythwhere the letter has an individual sound.
There is no formula. You simply have to compare the character against each of the 5 vowels using a non-case-sensitive comparison. A common method is to construct a string containing only the 5 vowels and then test if the character is in the string.
The only related term I have been able to find is: consonantal - of, pertaining or including consonsants. (This definition does NOT however specifically exclude the use of vowels). To do so, I'd suggest adding "-only", i.e., consonantal-only words. For me, it's simpler to say "consonant-only words". BTW, The antonym for consonatal is vocalic (of/pertaining to vowels).