# Five Vowels
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-vowels/374877
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports
**Created:** [October 1, 2006, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-vowels/374877 "2006-10-01T21:09:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@42fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/42fish)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2006, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-vowels/374877/1 "2006-10-01T21:09:21Z")
Re the column on five-consecutive-vowel words
[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3\_237.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_237.html)
The OED also includes the word Rousseauian (influenced by the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau).
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### Author:  [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2006, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-vowels/374877/2 "2006-10-02T01:32:01Z")
“The page cannot be displayed”
Did it include abstemious, facetious? I’ve forgotten the third one and any others. What are they?
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### Author:  [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2006, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-vowels/374877/3 "2006-10-02T02:56:32Z")
[Linky.](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_237.html)
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### Author:  [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-vowels/374877/4 "2006-10-02T16:36:42Z")
> [@Ignatz](#):
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> “The page cannot be displayed”
>
> Did it include abstemious, facetious? I’ve forgotten the third one and any others. What are they?
Five _consecutive_ vowels, not five _different_ vowels.
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### Author:  [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)
#### Post date: [October 2, 2006, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-vowels/374877/5 "2006-10-02T21:50:08Z")
Thanks for “linky”, C’puntal. That opened.
Thanks, Mr. Mapcase.
My digressive effort, as you mayhave noticed, was two of the three English words that have each of the 5 pure vowels included in alphabetical order. There’s one more of which I cannot think.
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### Author:  [@Kat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kat)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2006, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-vowels/374877/6 "2006-10-03T03:34:53Z")
That’s discussed in the [-gry](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_251.html) column. And words under discussion are actually _facetiously_, _abstemiously_ and _abstentiously_, having all the vowels (including Y) in order. Of course, you can just leave off the -ly to have the “5 pure vowels” requirement, and abandon the poor neglected Y off in the corner. 😃
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### Author:  [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2006, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-vowels/374877/7 "2006-10-08T01:32:41Z")
Khaaaaan!
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### Author:  [@Alex\_Dubinsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alex_Dubinsky)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2006, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-vowels/374877/8 "2006-10-08T05:20:55Z")
> [@](#):
>
> Khaaaaan!
loooool
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### Author:  [@Quint](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quint)
#### Post date: [October 8, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-vowels/374877/9 "2006-10-08T22:00:36Z")
While it’s claim to wordhood is tenuous, I’ll put forward [eunoia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunoia). I’m only really posting it to link to [chapter U](http://www.chbooks.com/archives/online_books/eunoia/u.html) of Christian Bok’s lipogram, which proves just what the dirtiest letter in the alphabet is. Just click on the poem to advance the pages. WARNING- page three is NOT SAFE FOR WORK! (That’s four clicks away- you’ve been warned! Besides, it’s art.)
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [October 9, 2006, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-vowels/374877/10 "2006-10-09T00:20:06Z")
[QUOTE=Alex\_Dubinsky]
loooool
[/QUOTE]
Aieee!!!
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### Author:  [@Alex\_Dubinsky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alex_Dubinsky)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2006, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-vowels/374877/11 "2006-10-11T20:55:37Z")
[QUOTE=Quint]
While it’s claim to wordhood is tenuous, I’ll put forward [eunoia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunoia). I’m only really posting it to link to [chapter U](http://www.chbooks.com/archives/online_books/eunoia/u.html) of Christian Bok’s lipogram, which proves just what the dirtiest letter in the alphabet is. Just click on the poem to advance the pages. WARNING- page three is NOT SAFE FOR WORK! (That’s four clicks away- you’ve been warned! Besides, it’s art.)
[/QUOTE]
that is so cool
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### Author:  [@sudont](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sudont)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-vowels/374877/12 "2012-04-23T19:13:05Z")
I don’t know if you would call these “English” words, but hey,
unlike queueing, they’re in my dictionary.
grep ‘[aeiouy]{5}’ /usr/share/dict/words
Aeaean
cadiueio
Chaouia
euouae
Guauaenok
```
Notice that "euouae" has six in a row. It's the only one like that
```
in my dictionary which, I believe, is the Oxford American. You can throw a
“y” in there, if you like, and grep a coupla more words.
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### Author:  [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2012, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-vowels/374877/13 "2012-04-23T20:25:08Z")
> [@sudont](#):
>
> I don’t know if you would call these “English” words, but hey,
> unlike queueing, they’re in my dictionary.
>
> grep ‘[aeiouy]{5}’ /usr/share/dict/words
>
> Aeaean
> cadiueio
> Chaouia
> euouae
> Guauaenok
>
> ```
> Notice that "euouae" has six in a row. It's the only one like that
>
> ```
>
> in my dictionary which, I believe, is the Oxford American. You can throw a
> “y” in there, if you like, and grep a coupla more words.
Hmmm, I don’t know if I would trust a dictionary that does not recognize a common word English like “queueing”. [OneLook Dictionary](http://www.onelook.com/), which claims to search 1062 online dictionaries (some must be very specialized, I think) does not find any of those except “[euouae](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euouae)” and “[Chaouia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaouia_%28language%29)”. The first is found just once (in Wikipedia rather than a dictionary) and it appears to be a mnemonic string rather than a real word. “Chaouia” (also appearing just once, in Wikipedia) is, apparently, not only a proper name (of a North African language), but also French. The most usual English name for the language in question is apparently _Shawiya_.
By contrast, OneLook finds [_queueing_](http://www.onelook.com/?w=queueing&ls=b) in 17 different dictionaries. It is a real English word.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2012, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-vowels/374877/14 "2012-04-23T21:09:45Z")
So let’s make up a word with seven consecutive vowels and popularize it on the net.
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### Author:  [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2012, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-vowels/374877/15 "2012-04-23T21:20:55Z")
> [@TriPolar](#):
>
> So let’s make up a word with seven consecutive vowels and popularize it on the net.
I think that’s a perfectly frageueiaous idea!
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### Author:  [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2012, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-vowels/374877/16 "2012-04-23T21:23:32Z")
I disagree. I think it’s downright haeiouoieable.
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### Author:  [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2012, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-vowels/374877/17 "2012-04-23T21:34:59Z")
> [@TriPolar](#):
>
> So let’s make up a word with seven consecutive vowels and popularize it on the net.
And then what? Go down to the quarry to throw it in?
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### Author:  [@gamerunknown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gamerunknown)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2012, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-vowels/374877/18 "2012-04-23T22:05:14Z")
Aeaeae is essentially magic or the arcane, presumably aeaean is a magician or practitioner of the arcane arts. At least that’s what I recall from a dictionary of recondite words (read it some time ago, may be mistaken).
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### Author:  [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2012, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-vowels/374877/19 "2012-04-23T22:17:19Z")
**sudont** ’s dictionary might not include inflected forms, which would be why it omits “queueing”.
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### Author:  [@Rucksinator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rucksinator)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2012, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/five-vowels/374877/20 "2012-04-24T01:28:35Z")
> [@Quint](#):
>
> While it’s claim to wordhood is tenuous, I’ll put forward [eunoia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunoia). I’m only really posting it to link to [chapter U](http://www.chbooks.com/archives/online_books/eunoia/u.html) of Christian Bok’s lipogram, which proves just what the dirtiest letter in the alphabet is. Just click on the poem to advance the pages. WARNING- page three is NOT SAFE FOR WORK! (That’s four clicks away- you’ve been warned! Besides, it’s art.)
I’m getting “Page not found”, and now I’m really curious.
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