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In English are there words without vowels?

(R. Kiran, Bellary)

Are you talking about the letters of the alphabet or are you talking about sounds? Every English word, in fact, every syllable of every English word usually contains a vowel sound. It is possible to have a syllable/word without a consonant sound (I, eye) but you will not find a syllable without a vowel sound.

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