A Vowel Tetragram (VT) is a group of 4 vowels unbroken by any consonants. There are 625 different VTs (125 beginning with each of A, E, I, O, and U), ranging from AAA, AAAE through UUUO, UUU. Words which contain a VT can be called Vowel Tetragram Words (VTWs). Relatively few words in current everyday usage include a VT. AQUEOUS, QUEUE, ONOMATOPOEIA, COOEE, HAWAIIAN and SEQUOIA are perhaps the most familiar
In Transposing Rates (WW87195), Jeff Grant listed the 24 transpositions of the four letters AEST. He...
In the February 1998 Word Ways, Richard Lederer used the term vowel movements to describe those ra...
This is a sequel to Vowel-Consonant Patterns which covered V-C patterns in 7-, 8-, and 9- letter wor...
We were recently fortunate enough to come by an extensive listing of tetragrams existing in the Seco...
In previous Word Ways articles I have examined vowel trigrams and vowel tetragrams. Since so many vo...
This article examines runs of the vowels a, e, i, o, u, in words and phrases. An example is proeu...
The vowel structure of a word is defined as its sequence of vowels, such as OIOU in obvious and cons...
In the August and November 1969 Word Ways, Ross and Faith Eckler presented a list of common trigrams...
We have often seen comments on words that have all five vowels AEIOU, usually in alphabetic order. I...
The twenty words needed to complete this puzzle are mostly vowels. Even though thirteen of the words...
TRAILS-TRIALS and MANTEL-MENTAL ARE EXAMPLES OF 6-LETTER VOWEL SWAP TRANSPOSALS (VSTs), the 2 vowels...
In the February 1971 Word Ways, Delphi Knoxjaqzonville presented a list of words and names displayin...
In most words, the arrangement of the five major vowels A, E, I, O, and U, irrespective of the conso...
In his article Seven-Letter Words in the August 1968 Word Ways, Dmitri Borgmann tackled the proble...
Firstly, a reminder that an AEIOU word is one in which the 5 major vowels occur just once, in any or...
In Transposing Rates (WW87195), Jeff Grant listed the 24 transpositions of the four letters AEST. He...
In the February 1998 Word Ways, Richard Lederer used the term vowel movements to describe those ra...
This is a sequel to Vowel-Consonant Patterns which covered V-C patterns in 7-, 8-, and 9- letter wor...
We were recently fortunate enough to come by an extensive listing of tetragrams existing in the Seco...
In previous Word Ways articles I have examined vowel trigrams and vowel tetragrams. Since so many vo...
This article examines runs of the vowels a, e, i, o, u, in words and phrases. An example is proeu...
The vowel structure of a word is defined as its sequence of vowels, such as OIOU in obvious and cons...
In the August and November 1969 Word Ways, Ross and Faith Eckler presented a list of common trigrams...
We have often seen comments on words that have all five vowels AEIOU, usually in alphabetic order. I...
The twenty words needed to complete this puzzle are mostly vowels. Even though thirteen of the words...
TRAILS-TRIALS and MANTEL-MENTAL ARE EXAMPLES OF 6-LETTER VOWEL SWAP TRANSPOSALS (VSTs), the 2 vowels...
In the February 1971 Word Ways, Delphi Knoxjaqzonville presented a list of words and names displayin...
In most words, the arrangement of the five major vowels A, E, I, O, and U, irrespective of the conso...
In his article Seven-Letter Words in the August 1968 Word Ways, Dmitri Borgmann tackled the proble...
Firstly, a reminder that an AEIOU word is one in which the 5 major vowels occur just once, in any or...
In Transposing Rates (WW87195), Jeff Grant listed the 24 transpositions of the four letters AEST. He...
In the February 1998 Word Ways, Richard Lederer used the term vowel movements to describe those ra...
This is a sequel to Vowel-Consonant Patterns which covered V-C patterns in 7-, 8-, and 9- letter wor...