How many vowels are there?

How many vowels are there?

For most speakers of American English, there are 14 vowel sounds, or 15 if we include the vowel-like sound in words like bird and her. The phonemic symbols for the vowels are shown in the table below. For each sound, you'll see at least two symbols.

What words have all the vowels?

The word Iouea, a genus of sea sponges, contains all five regular vowels and no other letters. [] There are many words that feature all five regular vowels occurring only once in alphabetical order, the most common being abstemious and facetious.

What are the 7 vowels?

In writing systems based on the Latin alphabet, the letters A, E, I, O, U, Y, W and sometimes others can all be used to represent vowels. However, not all of these letters represent the vowels in all languages that use this writing, or even consistently within one language.

What are the 20 vowel sounds?

English has 20 vowel sounds. Short vowels in the IPA are /ɪ/-pit, /e/-pet, /æ/-pat, /ʌ/-cut, /ʊ/-put, /ɒ/-dog, /ə/-about. Long vowels in the IPA are /i:/-week, /ɑ:/-hard,/ɔ:/-fork,/ɜ:/-heard, /u:/-boot.