The Akkadian alphabet was the first to have vowels, before that all letters were consenants-Hebrew for a long time had no vowels.
The short vowel letters in "lettuce" are E and U.
In the word "method", the first, third, fourth and sixth letters are consonants; while the second and fifth letters are vowels.
The letters within a word are either a consonant or a vowel, not the word itself. The letters A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y are the only vowels.The letters RGHT are consonants and the only vowel is I.
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"Strengths" has nine letters, but only one vowel.
The terms 'consonant' and 'vowel' refer to individual letters, not words.
No, 'm' is not a vowel. Vowels are the letters 'a', 'e', 'i', 'o', and 'u'. 'M' is a consonant.
A,E,I,O,U.
The combination of a root and a vowel is known as a vowel diacritic. Vowel diacritics are symbols that are added to consonant letters to indicate the vowel sound associated with that consonant.
The vowel sound in boy is spelled either u or oi.
The word "flop" has 4 letters, 3 consonants (f, l, p), and 1 vowel (o).
None. All of the letters in "Wyoming" are sounded: "W" consonant, "yo" diphthongal vowel, "m" consonant, "i" vowel, "ng" blended consonant. As noted above some the letters sound together as pairs of vowels or consonants ("yo" vowel and "ng" consonant).