It is not uncommon to find yourself without a vowel to play; for example, near the end of the game when you only have a few letters left. Fortunately, there are a number of playable words that consist only of consonants (for this discussion, we will treat the letter "Y" as being a vowel).
Many of the "no vowel" words are short and use letters of high value, meaning you'll often play them even when you have vowels to use. For instance, the word HM with its 4-point letter "H" can often be used on a triple letter multiplier. The word CWM (a Welsh word for a type of valley) can be used to remove undesirable letters from your rack.
Below is a list of all no-vowel words that are playable under SOWPODS. The list is given in playrank order, meaning that ST is the most often played word of the bunch, CH is the second most often played word, and so on down the list.
The first 16 words in the list are often played; the others are rarely if ever seen in a game. The last four words on the list are so uncommonly played that they were not seen even one time in a database of over 100,000 games! Those four words are easy to memorize, but you will probably never have any reason to play them.
1. st
2. ch
3. sh
4. hm
5. mm
6. pst
7. nth
8. twp
9. brr
10. cwm
11. pht
12. hmm
13. tsk
14. shh
15. brrr
16. cwms
17. psst
18. tsks
19. crwth
20. pfft
21. crwths
22. cwtch
23. phpht
--. tsktsk
--. tsktsks
--. zzz
--. zzzs
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