What word (which doesn't contain the letter y) only has one vowel even though it has nine letters?

(In reply to re(6): a solution by Benjamin J. Ladd)

Benjamin Ladd wrote: "On a side note, is there another word like excellent whose composition does contain nine distinct letters and only one unique vowel?"

Great question, Mr. Ladd !! Without doing an Internet search, the only one I could think of off the top of my head is "whipstitching", which has 9 distinct letters (8 distinct consonants and 1 distinct vowel). It means "to seam or hem with shallow overcasting stitches".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited on April 7, 2004, 8:13 pm

Posted by Penny on 2004-04-07 20:01:22