According to a Mexican friend of mine, murciélago (bat) is the only Spanish word with all five vowels.
In English, we have facetiously, which has all 5½ vowels (y is the half) in alphabetical order. I also like the words vacuum and aardvark for the unusual double vowels.
The coolest French word may be jouaient (third person plural imperfect of jouer – to play), which has all five vowels in a row!
And créée (feminine past participle of créer – to create) with its triple E.
Any other vowel-laden words?
Yes, absolutely. How about some German ‘monster’ words like “Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän” = Danube steamship company captain, or even longer: “Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz” (63 letters) = “beef labeling regulation & delegation of supervision law.”
This was a 1999 German Word of the Year, and it also won a special award as the longest German word for that year.
Obviously, there are lots of vowels to hold the consonants together.
I liked your examples too! I speak French as well and was never aware that in “jouaient” five vowels were grouped together!
In Spanish, “quincuagésimo” (fiftieth) has all the vowels.
BENI-OUI-OUI is a French word meaning “yes man” which has the greatest number of vowels in a row – seven.
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The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether they are read left to right or right to left.
There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous.” Tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order. Abstemious and facetious.
“Typewriter” is the longest word that can be made by using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
This week (23 February) on NPR radio, “Car Talk” asked what plural word in English has none of the letters of its singular, which itself is a commonly used word. Warning: Click & Clack said that the sought plural is, perhaps, archaic. Also, one of the two words here has few letters.