# Another trivia question... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 8, 2000, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-trivia-question/32496 "2000-09-08T14:37:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bpaulsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@bpaulsen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bpaulsen)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-trivia-question/32496/1 "2000-09-08T14:37:12Z")
This is one of my own that I’ve wondered about for years (I know, my live is pretty boring) How many words out there can form another word by replacing one of its vowel with any other vowel? The only one I can think of is the following: PAT, PET, PIT, POT, PUT I can think of tons of other words where I can get four words, but with the last vowel, I don’t get a real word. Is the above set the only one that works? Brian ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-trivia-question/32496/2 "2000-09-08T14:47:44Z")
How about… bat bet bit bot but ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-trivia-question/32496/3 "2000-09-08T14:51:19Z")
Try “B” Bat, Bet, Bit, Bot, But “H” Hat, Het, Hit, Hot, Hut het adj : made warm or hot; “a heated swimming pool”; “wiped his heated-up face with a large bandana”; (`het' is a dialectal variant of `heated’ as in “he was all het up and sweaty”) “G” Gat, Get, Git, Got, Gut gat1 (gt) n. A narrow passage extending inland from a shore; a channel. Anyway, I guess the answer is yes 🙂 Zette ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-trivia-question/32496/4 "2000-09-08T15:39:17Z")
How about: bat: flying mammal; baseball tool bet: wager bit: small amount bot: larva of a botfly; scrounger (Australian slang) but: conjunction pap: a nipple pep: happiness; spirit pip: a game piece in backgammon pop: soft drink; small explosive noise pup: infant dog, seal, other mammals tan: light brown ten: 10 tin: metallic element ton: 2000 pounds tun: a measure of liquid capacity, usually equivalent to 252 wine gallons. ---
**Author:** ![MJH2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@MJH2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MJH2)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-trivia-question/32496/5 "2000-09-08T16:07:43Z")
A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y? ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-trivia-question/32496/6 "2000-09-08T16:13:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MJH \* > \*\*A, E, I, O, U and sometimes Y? \*\* OK: byt: to attack with the mouth pyp: a long hollow tube used to transport fluids tyn: a prong of a fork; an actress on Cagney & Lacey ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-trivia-question/32496/7 "2000-09-08T16:19:01Z")
More: bad: evil; not good bed: furniture to sleep on bid: to offer a price at auction bod: slang for body bud: plant structure in immature form; e.g., flower bud, leaf bud _byd: to endure, to wait._ ---
**Author:** ![bpaulsen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/73ab20/32.png) [@bpaulsen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bpaulsen)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-trivia-question/32496/8 "2000-09-08T16:20:22Z")
Hmm, bot and tun seem to leave me lacking a bit… Maybe I just need to expand my vocabulary. Anybody think of any four letter ones yet? Maybe I should just find an online dictionary that will let me do a pattern search. Brian ---
**Author:** ![MinkMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minkman/32/19170_2.png) [@MinkMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MinkMan)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-trivia-question/32496/9 "2000-09-08T16:27:55Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by **bpaulsen** _ > Maybe I should just find an online dictionary that will let me do a pattern search Here a [link](http://www.amo.qc.ca/cgi-bin/pub/ODico/dico.out) that does just that. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-trivia-question/32496/10 "2000-09-08T16:32:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by bpaulsen \* > \*\* > Anybody think of any four letter ones yet? > > Brian \*\* Last Lest List Lost Lust ---
**Author:** ![Bobort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bobort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobort)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2000, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-trivia-question/32496/11 "2000-09-08T20:20:56Z")
A random anecdote: This summer, a bus stop I drove by nearly every day had an advertisement on it that said M\_LES, where the \_ was a picture of a bag of groceries. I never figured out what it was supposed to say… MALES? MILES? MOLES? MULES? I guess MELES isn’t really a word, although it seems to be a genus of European [badgers](http://1kai.dokkyomed.ac.jp/mammal/en/genus/meles.html) ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2000, 8:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-trivia-question/32496/12 "2000-09-11T08:16:05Z")
patter petter pitter potter putter Dane dene (a small valley) dine done dune dyne ---
**Author:** ![Sith\_Sheriff\_Brody](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@Sith\_Sheriff\_Brody](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sith_Sheriff_Brody)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2000, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-trivia-question/32496/13 "2000-09-13T01:20:56Z")
**bot** slang for ‘robot’ -SSB ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2000, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-trivia-question/32496/14 "2000-09-13T02:08:31Z")
Bag, Beg, Big, Bog, Bug… Ball, Bell, Bill, Boll (as in weevil), Bull ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2000, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-trivia-question/32496/15 "2000-09-13T03:18:05Z")
patty petty pity potty putty pity it’s a bit flawed… ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2000, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-trivia-question/32496/16 "2000-09-13T03:22:39Z")
Whoa! What’s up with the ghost poster, the one who posted at 11:07 on Sept. 8? Did anyone else notice that?