Words than can accept any vowel

The Game Room
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Here’s a bit of a game I cooked up to distract my 8 year old cousins for a while, meaning Dopers should be able to dominate it: how many letter combinations can you think of where if any of the five vowels (real vowels - my condolences, Y) were inserted into a blank space, it would form five different Scrabble-acceptable words?

Ones we came up with rather quickly:
P_T (pat, pet, pit, pot, put)
**B_T **(bat, bet, bit, bot, but)
I’m sure we thought of a few more that aren’t combing to mind at the moment.

I’m sure you’ll find more painful near-examples than examples (damn your non-existence, “bOtter”, “pOck”, “lEck”, “sAre”, “sEck” and “pOn”!) but I present the challenge to you: how many more of these combinations can we come up with? I mostly stuck with 3-4 letter combos, but bonus points go out to anyone who can think of a multi-syllable example

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Sot and pock both exist.

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Right you are about sot - but I meant to say “sut”, therein lies the rub.

I suppose I’d never thought of a single pock, I generally think of them as either small- or chicken- related and plural, but dictionary.com backs you up - bringing our total to 3.

P_CK - pack, peck, pick, pock, puck

[Edit: and a fourth that just came to mind, B_G: bag, beg, big, bog, bug]

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The following form words* with the five vowels:
(*or at least words recognized as playable in the Scrabble dictionary)

_S (as,es*,is,os#,us) *the letter ‘s’; #an opening (in anatomy)

H_T (hat,het*,hit,hot,hut) *alternate spelling of ‘heth,’ a letter in the Hebrew alphabet

G_T (gat*,get,git#,got, gut) *slang for a gun; #alt. spelling of ‘get’

T_T (tat*,tet#,tit,tot,tut) *to perform lacework; #alt. spelling of ‘teth,’ another Hebrew letter

R_M (ram,rem*,rim,rom#,rum) *unit for measuring radiation; #a Gypsy boy or man

H_CK (hack,heck,hick,hock,huck*) *a type of fabric

And a two-syllable one:

D_CKER (dacker*,decker#,dicker,docker**,ducker##)
*to waver
#something with multiple levels (as in ‘double decker’)
**a dockworker
##something that ducks
[And plain ‘dack’ didn’t make it as a word]

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mate, mete, mite, mote, mute

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H_P (hap*,hep,hip,hop,hup) to happen
T_N (tan,ten,tin,ton,tun) a large vessel
F_N (fan,fen,fin,fon,fun) alt. spelling of foehn, a warm, dry wind
F_R (far,fer,fir,for,fur) alt. spelling of ‘for’
B_ND (band,bend,bind,bond,bund) *a political organization
BL_NDER (blander,blender,blinder,blonder,blunder)

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M_ (ma,me,mi,mo*,mu,my) moment or momentum
M_D (mad,med,mid,mod,mud)
B_D (bad,bed,bid,bod,bud)
B_LL (ball,bell,bill,boll,bull) a cotton pod [as in the boll weevil]
P_P (pap,pep,pip,pop,pup)
N_B (nab,neb,nib,nob#,nub) a bird’s beak #a wealthy person
M_LL (mall,mell,mill,moll,mull) to mix
M_RE (mare,mere,mire,more,mure) *to immure
M_SS (mass,mess,miss,moss,muss)

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D_N

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Are there any others that will accept all six vowels, including y?

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No one has P_N yet. Now Antonio is the popular one!

PAN
PEN
PIN
PON
PUN

Pon’s…almost a word. :frowning:

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Very nice! My best is P_TTER (patter, petter [often heavy], pitter, potter, putter)

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Here’s a thread on the same subject that I remember from a few years back: a-e-i-o-u word groups.