Vowel-only Scrabble words

6 words in NWL202316 words in CSW24 · switch lists at the bottom of the page

Racks full of vowels are painful. These are the words that use only A, E, I, O and U, in NWL2023 and CSW24. AA, AE, AI, OE, OI, EAU and EUOUAE (the longest word made only of vowels) are the ones to know.

• AArough, cindery lava [n AAS]
• AEone [adj]
• AIa three-toed sloth [n AIS]
• AIA(Hindi) in India, a maid or nurse, also AYAH [n -S]
• AUA(Maori) the yellow-eye mullet [n -S]
• AUE(Maori) an exclamation of pain, distress or astonishment [interj]
• EA(dialect) a river [n -S]
• EAUwater (a transparent, tasteless, odorless liquid) [n EAUX]
• EE(Scots) an eye [n EEN]
• EUOI(Greek) expressing Bacchic frenzy, also EVOE, EVHOE, EVOHE [interj]
• EUOUAE(Latin) a name for a Gregorian cadence, also EVOVAE [n -S]
• IOa cry of joy [n -S]
• OEa whirlwind off the Faeroe islands [n OES]
• OIoy [interj]
• OO(Scots) wool [n -S]
• OU(South African) a man, a bloke [n OUS or OUENS]