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Letter Ratios II (Posted on 2022-04-03)

Determine the word/words with the greatest consonant to vowel ratio.

Notes:
→ No proper nouns, abbreviations/acronyms, slangs, esoteric/archaic words. Also, hyphenated words like A-bomb are NOT permissible.
→ Consider Y as a vowel.
→ The word must have at least one vowel.

See The Solution Submitted by K Sengupta

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Among words with one vowel (not counting Y) the monosyllabic STRENGTHS is the longest. It has a 8:1 ratio.

Each extra vowel would require such a long word that I doubt one exists. It looks like SPENDTHRIFTS is the longest two-vowel word but is only 10:2.

Posted by Jer on 2022-04-03 09:19:43

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