Quick word quiz (in Contests)

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"What is the only word in the English language that contains five consecutive vowels?"

Rousseauian

QUEUEING

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AERIOUS

Sorry 777, it's spelled;

Rousseauan

And that's only four consecutive vowels.

SunnyRoad wins with Queueing.

:)

facetious.

A good word. A GL word. =)

soz, not consecutive but in consecutive order in the word...

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_237.html

Ah Johnnywas, Playfully jocular indeed!

*shakes fist at askoxford.com*
you sooo planned that... nice one. =]

Oops, i thought the 5 vowels in a row. The spell checker will not let me post so this disclaimer has to be included in my post. If I get fined for it, then so be it. 5 consecutive vowels include: ...QUEUEING, AIEEE, COOEEING, MIAOUED, ZAOUIA, JUSSIEUEAN, ZOOEAE, ZOAEAE, UOIAUAI, EUOUAE ...(actually 6 in a row), All are found in major English dictionaries.

Thanks GL, and some of those words seem really odd..

O_O

Nice words Ranger...

What do they mean?

Damn alternate spelling of Meow... >_<

So it appears there isn't a just a single word in English that contain five consecutive vowels.

In any case, I stand by queueing and SunnyRoad as the winner of this ill conceived quiz.

But damn I got schooled! ;)

Dont know what they mean, just know as a scrabble player they are legal words in that game.

Who gets too many vowels when playing Scrabble?

Ever play in tournaments Bast? It happens more frequently than one would think.

A scrabble tourney. Sounds l337.

From my experience, "miaou" is the french spelling for "meow", so perhaps that one doesn't count.

I'd guess that AIEEE, UOIAUAI, EUOUAE are exclamations, and the others look like they were also imported from other languages. So "queueing" is the only one that counts ;p

I think COOEEING is Australian.

;)

If it is defined in an English dictionary, then it is by definition an English word, der.

;)

Words with the most consecutive vowels (six) include EUOUAE, which W2 defines as "A word formed from the vowels of seculorum amen, ending the Gloria Patri," and AIOUEA (a genus of plants of the laurel family). Words with five consecutive vowels include QUEUEING (used in the mathematics term "queueing theory"), the interjection AIEEE, which is in the OED, and COOEEING. (COOEE or COOEY, a peculiar cry of the Australian aborigine, is in W1, W2, and W3. The word is also a verb and both W1 and W2 show the forms COOEEING and COOEEYING.) The OED2 has COUUIENALES, which is a variant of quienals, which comes from quiennal, meaning "dispensation or indulgence for five years." Other such words are MIEAOU (OED) and MIAOUED and MIAOUING (what a cat does; OSPD and Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 5th edition), ZAOUIA (an alternate spelling of zawiya according to the OED2 - Jeremy Marshall), JUSSIEUEAN ("pertaining to the natural system of botanical classification devised by Bernard de Jussieu and his nephew Antoine Laurent de Jussie" [W3]) and ZOOEAE (larvae of crabs and relatives [Chris Cole]) or ZOAEAE [OED]. The Kaula (Pteralyxia kauaiensis) and the Holei (Ochrosia kilaueaensis) are endangered Hawaiian plants, and the Formosan Sika (Cervus nippon taiouanus) is an endangered Taiwanese deer. MIOEUOTICUS is a fossil primate genus [Charles Turner, Philip Bennett].

Can't argue with a banker.

I google with the best of them eh mrwuss?