vowel
noun / verb
Meaning
- nounA sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
Example:
Hawaiian has either five or twenty-five vowels, depending on how they are counted.
- verbTo add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic).
- nounA letter or diacritic representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, y (sometimes), and w (rarely).
Example:
The word facetiously is spelled with all six vowels in alphabetical order.
Source: Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Five-letter puzzle facts
- How common
- Common
- #1,273 of 8,600 five-letter words by how often they're used
- Can be a Play Five answer
- As a first guess
- Tests likely letters better than 42% of common five-letter words.
- Vowels: 2 · Different letters: 5 · Repeated letters: None