# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**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 30, 2015, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/21 "2015-07-30T01:46:49Z")
> [@Giles](#): > > I suspect that is Yiddish and not Hebrew. Wiki [sez](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oy_vey) oy _vey_ is Yiddish, but oy _vavoy_ is Hebrew. (YO ADRIAN! I DID IT!) ---
**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 30, 2015, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/22 "2015-07-30T02:24:20Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Wiki [sez](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oy_vey) oy _vey_ is Yiddish, but oy _vavoy_ is Hebrew. > > (YO ADRIAN! I DID IT!) But that is not the Hebrew spelling of those words. ---
**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 30, 2015, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/23 "2015-07-30T02:38:06Z")
Surely you don’t expect me to _yo-yo_ on this. ---
**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 30, 2015, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/24 "2015-07-30T02:43:43Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Surely you don’t expect me to _yo-yo_ on this. At this point I wouldn’t dream of it. I am impressed with your inconsonants. ---
**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 30, 2015, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/25 "2015-07-30T02:56:53Z")
I’m in _awe_ of your compliment. ---
**Author:** ![nani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58956e/32.png) [@nani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nani)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2015, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/26 "2015-07-30T06:08:58Z")
Iouea is the name of a genus of sea sponges. ---
**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 30, 2015, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/27 "2015-07-30T10:03:32Z")
Yew is the name of a tree. ---
**Author:** ![tapu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@tapu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tapu)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2015, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/28 "2015-08-01T04:24:33Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Iowa, if W counts as a vowel ‘w’ certainly does NOT count as a vowel in the word “Iowa.” There is apparently wide and deep misunderstanding about y and w sometimes being vowels. See _diphthongs_. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2015, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/29 "2015-08-04T12:59:47Z")
Oa - the home of the Guardians and the Green Lantern Corps Oe - a village in Estonia oi - oy Oo - a commune in France ou - an endangered form of the Hawaiian honeycreeper, a bird oy - an exclamation of chagrin or dismay ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2015, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454/30 "2015-08-04T20:02:43Z")
> [@RobDog](#): > > No way am I playing you at Scrabble. Memorizing the two and three letter words is very necessary. They’re easy to find online. And, no, I don’t have them memorized. > [@ataraxy22](#): > > au isn’t good in English language scrabble, so you could challenge it off the board. I don’t think ao is, either. Let me check. > [@](#): > > AA AB AD AE AG AH AI AL AM AN AR AS AT AW AX AY > BA BE BI BO BY > DE DO > ED EF EH EL EM EN ER ES ET EX > FA FE > GO > HA HE HI HM HO > ID IF IN IS IT > JO > KA KI > LA LI LO > MA ME MI MM MO MU MY > NA NE NO NU > OD OE OF OH OI OM ON OP OR OS OW OX OY > PA PE PI > QI > RE > SH SI SO > TA TI TO > UH UM UN UP US UT > WE WO > XI XU > YA YE YO > ZA Nope. No ao. That doesn’t mean it’s not a word, of course, it just means that you can be called on it if you use it in Scrabble. (I really hate that they allow SH, HM, and MM.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/words-that-are-made-up-of-all-vowels/726454.md?page=1)