Which is the longest word in English Dictionary that.....

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Technically, there can be no word that does not have at least one vowel, even if it is not written. A vowel is a speech sound which may or may not have a specific letter or letter combination assigned to it - and English is notorious in using letters to represent more than one sound, depending on the word. So to say that the letter 'y' is not a vowel (which, I presume, is what your conundrum is based upon) would be to use a 'trick' because the letter 'y' functions both as a vowel and as a consonant in English. The same can be said of 'w', though it usually only occurs in letter combinations in English. The longest word in English with none of the 'traditional' vowel letters is RHYTHMS, which actually contains two vowels - 'Y', denoting the short 'i' sound and the short 'shwa' sound, 'e', which is not written but pronounced between the 'TH' and the 'M'. There is another word which can be found in some dictionaries. It comes from the Welsh (where 'y' and 'w' are used - and listed - as vowels) and it is really a 'Cymrification' of an English word: Twyndyllyngs is the longest word in English that doesn't contain one of the five vowels (AEIOU). It comes from Welsh and is obviously rare, but it does appear in the Oxford English Dictionary. It turns out that "twyndyllyng" (singular) is a 15th century spelling of the word "twinling," which means, in modern English, "twin."

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