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A chain of five (Posted on 2015-06-08) Difficulty: 3 of 5
The word queueing has 5 vowels in sequence.

Are there any other words in the English language that use five vowels, not necessarily distinct, with no intervening consonants?

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Solution computer solution | Comment 1 of 2
cooeeing
cooeyed
cooeying
miaoued
miaouing
queueing

from

DefDbl A-Z
Dim crlf$


Private Sub Form_Load()
 Text1.Text = ""
 crlf$ = Chr(13) + Chr(10)
 Form1.Visible = True
 DoEvents
 
 Open "c:\words\words.txt" For Input As #1
 Do
   Line Input #1, l$
   vct = 0: vmax = 0
   For i = 1 To Len(l)
     If InStr("aeiouy", Mid(l, i, 1)) > 0 Then
       vct = vct + 1: If vct > vmax Then vmax = vct
     Else
       vct = 0
     End If
   Next
   If vmax >= 5 Then
     Text1.Text = Text1.Text & l & crlf
   End If
 Loop Until EOF(1)
 Close 1
 
 Text1.Text = Text1.Text & " done"
 
End Sub


  Posted by Charlie on 2015-06-08 21:59:37
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