5-Letter Words Without Vowels
No A, E, I, O, or U: these five-letter words survive on consonants alone, usually with Y or W doing a vowel’s job. They are rare, surprising, and brutal to find in a puzzle unless you know they exist.
Most of them lean on Y (as in LYMPH or CRYPT) or on Welsh borrowings like CRWTH. They are all valid tournament words, and they make devastating Scrabble plays when your rack is a wall of consonants.
36 words (the small number on each word is its Scrabble point value)
- lynch 13
- myths 13
- gypsy 14
- crypt 12
- lymph 15
- synth 11
- psych 15
- hymns 13
- cysts 10
- nymph 15
- glyph 14
- synch 13
- pygmy 16
- myrrh 13
- shyly 14
- tryst 8
- flyby 16
- syncs 10
- ghyll 12
- slyly 11
- dryly 12
- wryly 14
- wynns 11
- sylph 13
- byrls 10
- crwth 13
- mythy 16
- phpht 15
- rynds 9
- stymy 13
- syphs 13
- thymy 16
- typps 12
- wynds 12
- xylyl 18
- xysts 15
Points use Scrabble US letter values
Frequently asked questions
How many five-letter words are there with no vowels (A, E, I, O, U)?
There are 36 five-letter words with no vowels (A, E, I, O, U) in the tournament word lists. The most common are LYNCH, MYTHS, GYPSY.
What are common five-letter words with no vowels (A, E, I, O, U)?
LYNCH, MYTHS, GYPSY, CRYPT, LYMPH are the most frequently used. The full list of 36 words on this page is sorted by everyday frequency, so the common ones come first.
Why are the words in this order?
Words are ranked by how often they appear in a trillion-word corpus of written English, most common first. That surfaces likely puzzle answers instead of hiding them mid-alphabet. Use the sort control to switch to alphabetical or points order.