# Words that are made up of all vowels! **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [July 29, 2015, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454 "2015-07-29T06:43:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![electroFAYSEE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/0ea827/32.png) [@electroFAYSEE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/electroFAYSEE)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/1 "2015-07-29T06:43:12Z")
Words that are made up of all vowels! It may just make you clench your bowels! (sorry, not good at poetry.) Anyways, feel free to google, I have no way of stopping you 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/channing_idaho_banks/32/250_2.png) [@Channing\_Idaho\_Banks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Channing_Idaho_Banks)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/2 "2015-07-29T06:54:47Z")
‘you’ comes to mind. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 7:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/3 "2015-07-29T07:12:29Z")
ah aye ewe eye oh ow owe (assuming the question means vowel sounds) ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 8:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/4 "2015-07-29T08:11:53Z")
Oui You didn’t say it had to be English 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 9:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/5 "2015-07-29T09:10:07Z")
Do you accept y as a vowel? If not, I assume you’re stuck with two English words: a + i ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 10:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/6 "2015-07-29T10:55:18Z")
“O” is also an English word, albeit not used much in prose. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/7 "2015-07-29T10:57:23Z")
Eau ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 12:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/8 "2015-07-29T12:08:47Z")
Sometimes w? Whew ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/9 "2015-07-29T12:12:24Z")
There aren’t any Hebrew words that qualify. That may not be technically true, I forget all the details of the alphabet, but most of the vowels are unwritten. ---
**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/10 "2015-07-29T12:29:02Z")
I.O.U. ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/11 "2015-07-29T15:08:18Z")
Do you consider diphthongs vowels? If not, many of the examples given don’t count. And in the case of ‘you’ and ‘whew,’ y and w(h) are consonants. Which actually begs the question: are you talking about spoken and/or written forms? ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/12 "2015-07-29T15:08:21Z")
Aaaaiiiiiieee! Then there’s Aiea, a city in Hawaii. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/13 "2015-07-29T15:11:41Z")
aa - a type of lava ae - a Scottish variant of “A”, meaning “one” ai - a three-toed sloth ao - a color word, from the Japanese, including both blue and green Au - a district in Munich, Germany ay - or “aye”, “yes” ---
**Author:** ![RobDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f07891/32.png) [@RobDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RobDog)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/14 "2015-07-29T15:25:53Z")
> [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](#): > > aa - a type of lava > ae - a Scottish variant of “A”, meaning “one” > ai - a three-toed sloth > ao - a color word, from the Japanese, including both blue and green > Au - a district in Munich, Germany > ay - or “aye”, “yes” No way am I playing you at Scrabble. ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/15 "2015-07-29T15:34:55Z")
au isn’t good in English language scrabble, so you could challenge it off the board. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/16 "2015-07-29T16:02:55Z")
Ah, but this isn’t Scrabble. ea - a river or waterway Ee - an island in the Cook Islands Ei - a town in Japan Eo- an artificial language eu - Greek for “good” or “well” ey - a variant of “eh” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/17 "2015-07-29T22:10:50Z")
Iowa, if W counts as a vowel ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/18 "2015-07-29T23:44:24Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > There aren’t any Hebrew words that qualify. Oy. ---
**Author:** ![Giles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giles/32/60_2.png) [@Giles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giles)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/19 "2015-07-30T01:25:24Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Oy. I suspect that is Yiddish and not Hebrew. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/20 "2015-07-30T01:40:47Z")
Ia - a river in Brazil ie - a Cyrillic letter that resembles the letter e Ii - a town in Finland Io - a moon of Jupiter Iu - a Korean singer [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454.md?page=2)