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Plural of vowel

regular plural

The plural of vowel is vowels.

Forms of vowel

Singularvowel /ˈvaʊ.əl/
Pluralvowels /ˈvaʊəlz/
Countablecountable

Vowels in a sentence

  • Hawaiian has either five or twenty-five vowels, depending on how they are counted.
  • The word facetiously is spelled with all six vowels in alphabetical order.
  • The umlautable vowels in German are a, o, u, and au.From the entry umlautable
  • I've got all vowels. I don't think I can go.From the entry go
  • Kalasha is phonologically atypical because it contrasts plain, long, nasal, and retroflex vowels as well as combinations of these.From the entry kalasha

Meaning of vowel

  1. noun A sound produced by the vocal cords with relatively little restriction of the oral cavity, forming the prominent sound of a syllable.
  2. noun A letter or diacritic representing the sound of a vowel; in English, the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, y (sometimes), and w (rarely).
  3. verb To add vowel points to a consonantal script (e.g. niqqud in Hebrew or harakat in Arabic).

Full definition of vowel

Questions about the plural of vowel

What is the plural of vowel?
The plural of vowel is vowels.
Is vowel countable?
Vowel is a countable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: vowel (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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