Words with no vowels

What is in this list

This list holds 119 words, under 0.1% of the 172,634 words this site keeps from the ENABLE word list. They run from 2 to 7 letters, and the most common length is 5 letters with 36 words (30.3% of the list). The shortest are BY, HM, MM, MY and SH; the longest are GLYCYLS, RHYTHMS and TSKTSKS. Of the 11 lists in this group it is the 10th largest: “words with Y” leads with 24,453 and “words with Q but no U” has the fewest, 21. 2 words that would also fit were left out by this site's blocklist of slurs and explicit words.

Points and vowels

Using this site's letter values, the average word here scores 11.6 points (median 12); words of the same lengths across the whole list average 8.6, so this list runs 2.9 points richer. The top scorers are SYZYGY (24), XYLYLS (21), XYLYL (20), FLYBYS (19). Point for point, PYX earns the most per letter: 15 points over 3 letters, 5 each.

Vowels (A, E, I, O, U) make up 0% of the letters, against 38% across the whole list. Compared with the whole dictionary, the letter most over-represented here is Y: 22.7% of the letters, against 1.6% overall.

How the words are built

15 words have a doubled letter (12.6%); the most common doubles are RR (5), LL (2), MM (2). The most common three-letter openings are SYN- (6, as in SYNC), WYN- (5, as in WYND), GLY- (4, as in GLYCYL). The most common endings are -PHS (5, as in GLYPHS), -YLY (5, as in DRYLY), -STS (3, as in CYSTS). 29.4% end in a single S — mostly plurals and verb forms of shorter words.

Word play in this list

The biggest anagram family here is MYTHY and THYMY — 2 words from the same 5 letters. Altogether 2 sets of anagrams sit inside this list, covering 4 words. The longest word with no letter repeated is CRWTHS (6 different letters).

30.3% of these words take an S on the end and stay a word (BY, BYRL and CRWTH among them); after S, the most useful end letter is E, which extends 7 words. At the front, A turns 5 words into new ones (BY → ABY); S turns 2 words into new ones (CRY → SCRY); E turns one word into a new one (SPY → ESPY).

Using this list

To narrow it further, open it in the pattern finder: the rule “leaves out A, E, I, O, U” is already filled in, and you can add a length, a fixed letter position or letters to leave out.