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Monovocalics

A list of 2372 words by mollusque.

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Words that have only one of the vowels. On this list I include only words with at least three vowels. When I first started the list, if a word had several forms, I generally listed only the one with the most vowels (for example, "deepened" rather than "deepen", "deeper" or "deepest"). Then I started including the shorter forms after adding tags to view words by number of vowels: aaa, aaaa, aaaaa, aaaaaa; eee, eeee, eeeee, eeeeee, eeeeeeee; iii, iiii, iiiii, iiiiii, iiiiiii; ooo, oooo, ooooo, oooooo, ooooooo, oooooooo; uuu, uuuu; uuuuu, uuuuuu; and yyy, yyyy, yyyyy.

See also Monovocalic Proper and Monovocalic polyglot.

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  • sarra commented on the list monovocalics

    *falls over with joy*

    December 15, 2007

  • mollusque commented on the list monovocalics

    Glad you like them, sarra. Beats falling over from wordasphyxia.

    December 16, 2007

  • bilby commented on the list monovocalics

    How do you find them molly? Do you trawl through dictionaries endlessly or is there a way of searching for monovocalic words a bit more automatically?

    December 16, 2007

  • mollusque commented on the list monovocalics

    Hi Bilby! Once upon a time I downloaded a circa 300,000 word list (from a site I can't find online anymore), and put it in a database where I do pattern searches. Then I look up the words I don't know, because the list is dirty (typos, and verb forms that seem not to exist), and of course find others words along the way, usually in MW3 or OED2.

    December 16, 2007

  • reesetee commented on the list monovocalics

    Oh no. He's one of us.

    *helps sarra get up*

    December 17, 2007

  • mollusque commented on the list monovocalics

    Which one? And why only one? Can't I be both of you?

    December 17, 2007

  • bilby commented on the list monovocalics

    You might like this list of Spanish monovocalics.

    January 4, 2008

  • reesetee commented on the list monovocalics

    Hey! Bilingual monovocalics!

    January 4, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list monovocalics

    I do like it! I wish I knew Spanish so I could contribute.

    January 4, 2008

  • whichbe commented on the list monovocalics

    I really love this list, but I wish it were seperated by vowel... perhaps I'm neurotic like that. But your tagging of these words makes it close to that.

    September 3, 2008

  • Prolagus commented on the list monovocalics

    the list names could be "monovocolocs", "minivicilics", and so on...

    September 3, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list monovocalics

    Yes, we have no bononos...

    September 3, 2008

  • yarb commented on the list monovocalics

    Genteel (or genteeler). Deterrent.

    October 11, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list monovocalics

    Thanks, yarb. I had deterrence and genteelest, but I'm trying to list other forms also now, not just the longest.

    October 14, 2008

  • yarb commented on the list monovocalics

    Treeshrew. Unless you already have their language, treeshrewese.

    October 14, 2008

  • reesetee commented on the list monovocalics

    That sounds like someone trying to get my attention while eating licorice.

    October 14, 2008

  • yarb commented on the list monovocalics

    Freemen or freedmen?

    October 18, 2008

  • Prolagus commented on the list monovocalics

    You scare me.

    November 4, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list monovocalics

    I scare myself.

    November 4, 2008

  • whichbe commented on the list monovocalics

    monopoly

    November 15, 2008

  • mollusque commented on the list monovocalics

    Nope, it has a wye.

    November 15, 2008

  • senwick commented on the list monovocalics

    -deleted-

    ((Sorry))

    November 17, 2008

  • chained_bear commented on the list monovocalics

    bejeweled?

    April 8, 2009

  • madmouth commented on the list monovocalics

    There should be a sister list based on phonology rather than spelling (e.g. cheery; eerie), or a truly baroque monovocalics in spelling AND phonology one (e.g. finish; whistling).

    May 5, 2009

  • madmouth commented on the list monovocalics

    mahabharatha

    natyashastra

    though of course you could just get a Sanskrit text (on anything) and yank 'em out as you see fit.

    May 6, 2009

  • mollusque commented on the list monovocalics

    Thanks, madmouth! I put Mahabharatha on Monovocalic Proper. The wye knocks out natyashastra (I know, it's not used as a vowel there, but that's my rule).

    Go ahead and start that phonetic monovocalics list if you'd like. Or does someone already have one?

    May 7, 2009

  • madmouth commented on the list monovocalics

    I was afraid to open it and leave it to the tumbleweeds (being a consonant hound, rather). But what the hell!

    ETA: The Free Dictionary lists viscidity as a valid derivation of viscid.

    May 7, 2009

  • frogapplause commented on the list monovocalics

    peetweets, peesweeps.

    May 7, 2009

  • yarb commented on the list monovocalics

    Netherbetween.

    June 8, 2009

  • yarb commented on the list monovocalics

    Ceremented.

    September 4, 2009

  • mollusque commented on the list monovocalics

    Thanks, yarb!

    September 4, 2009

  • yarb commented on the list monovocalics

    hedgecreeper!

    March 6, 2010

  • knitandpurl commented on the list monovocalics

    Have you read Eunoia by Christian Bök? http://archives.chbooks.com/online_books/eunoia/text.html

    May 20, 2010

  • mollusque commented on the list monovocalics

    Yes, I got a copy for Chanukkah last year. It's intense.

    May 20, 2010

  • hernesheir commented on the list monovocalics

    Your contributions on mono- and panvocalics (what a feather in your cap that word is!) are and will ever remain my favorite aspects of WordieWorknik. You're awesome, Moll.

    May 24, 2010

  • mollusque commented on the list monovocalics

    Thanks hernesheir! I just wish there were more of them. I don't often find new ones these days.

    May 24, 2010

  • PossibleUnderscore commented on the list monovocalics

    May I suggest our good friends ruzuzu and oroboros?

    Unless, of course, this list excludes names.

    June 30, 2010

  • ruzuzu commented on the list monovocalics

    Hey! Thanks, PossibleUnderscore - I think I'm properly accounted for over on Monovocalic Proper... but it's nice of you to notice my u's. :-)

    July 1, 2010

  • PossibleUnderscore commented on the list monovocalics

    X-)

    July 1, 2010

  • RitaG commented on the list monovocalics

    Brilliant list. I add yours to my favourites.

    Have you got CONCOCT, BANANA, PRECEDE in your list?

    August 25, 2010

  • frogapplause commented on the list monovocalics

    aaaa: caragana, sasarara, takamaka

    eeee: teleseme, yestereve

    oooo: colobolo, hooroo

    uuu: urubus

    April 29, 2011

  • PossibleUnderscore commented on the list monovocalics

    Hey! How did flampoint make it onto this list?

    April 29, 2011

  • mollusque commented on the list monovocalics

    Thanks frogapplause and PossibleUnderscore! The list is now "unflampointed" and the others are added except yestereve (with a "y") and urubus (I have urubu).

    April 30, 2011

  • Wordplayer commented on the list monovocalics

    While reading the list, I came across nagaswaram. Shouldn't it be nadaswaram?

    April 30, 2011

  • mollusque commented on the list monovocalics

    Hi Wordplayer, both spellings are used. Online, nadaswaram is about 10 times more common than nagaswaram. In print (judging from Google Books), which is a proxy for having some editorial or copyediting input, the opposite pattern occurs: nagaswaram leads nadaswaram about 8 : 5. In the most reliable sources (judging from Google Scholar), they're in a virtual dead-heat. I've added nadaswaram.

    May 1, 2011

  • Wordplayer commented on the list monovocalics

    Oh, I was unaware of that, but thank you mollusque!

    May 1, 2011

  • frogapplause commented on the list monovocalics

    aaa: swakara, campagna, haphtara, parasha, rakshasa

    aaaa: atalaya

    eee: bergere, pensee, jerreed, mestee

    eeee: peebeen

    iii: wistiti

    ooo: pocoson, rotolo

    May 2, 2011

  • mollusque commented on the list monovocalics

    Thanks frogapplause, I added all but atalaya (with that pesky "y"), and haphtara (haftarah is on the list). I put Rakshasa on Monovocalic Proper, and pensée on Monovocalic polygot.

    May 7, 2011

  • ruzuzu commented on the list monovocalics

    Just saw defenselessness and thought of this list, but it's here already--which didn't surprise me at all!

    April 29, 2014