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A list of all consonant-only words for Scrabble and other word games. All words only consisting consonants and Y.

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tsktsks₁₅

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crwths₁₄tsktsk₁₄grrrls₉

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cwtch₁₆ phpht₁₅crwth₁₃grrls₈grrrl₈

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cwms₁₃pfft₁₃tsks₈brrr₇grrl₇psst₇

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qgp₁₇bff₁₂cwm₁₂mmm₁₂hmm₁₁tfw₉pht₈tch₈shh₇tsk₇brr₆nth₆lsd₅

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mm₈hm₇sh₄

When you are playing Words with Friends or Scrabble, it is important to understand how words are formed. You may look at your letter selections and realize that you have many more consonants than vowels. Fortunately, there are some consonant blends and combinations that can come to your rescue. There are even a few words made of consonants alone that are acceptable in most word games.

Common Consonant Blends

When you are playing a game where you must unscramble letters, you might assume that you will succeed by alternating consonants and vowels. However, there are some consonant combinations that you must take into account. Some of the most common consonant blends are at the beginning of words. Share, chance, small, snack, crab and blue are all good examples.

Words with Greek origins have combinations created by the ancient Greek alphabet. Pseudoscience includes a couple of blends. Philosophy has an f sound that comes from the Greek letter Phi. Chronology starts with a three-letter blend that was a two-letter blend in Greek, a combination of Chi and Rho.

There are also some common consonant combinations that you can find at the end of words. Trident, fish, communism and leech are all words that can help you get rid of a few tiles.

Double Consonant Words

It is not a Scrabble cheat to place some double consonant words when you have too many copies of the same tile. The name Scrabble itself is a perfect example. Most double letters are found in the middle of a word where they sit at a break between syllables: dollar, fissure, hammer and furry. There are a few double letters that sit at the end of words: fall, less, watt and buzz. Even fewer words begin with two copies of the same consonant. These are mostly words borrowed from other languages like the Spanish word llama.

Are there any words made up of only consonants?

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When push comes to shove, you may want to expand your vocabulary to include some all consonant words. There is some debate over what counts as a word with only consonants. You probably learned in school that the vowels are a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y. In words like gym, glyph, myth, and nymph, the letter y is acting as a vowel, but some people would say that these are all consonant words.

Another class of words with only consonants is onomatopoeic words. These are words that mimic sounds. Someone who is cold might say, Brr. Pfft is a common sound of dismissal. A curious person says, Hmm.

Foreign words

Finally, some consonant-only words have been handed to us from other languages. In Welsh, a cwm is a round valley often found in the mountains. From the same country, a crwth is a type of traditional fiddle.

When you know your consonant words, you have many more options to add to your word list. Your Scrabble and Word with Friends opponents will marvel at your ability to make words.

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Hard and soft consonants.

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You must have noticed that the same consonant letters can sound different. For example, in the words "childish" and "think" the letter "d" is not the same: we pronounce one softly, and the other firmly. It's time to figure out why this is happening. In this article, we will tell you what hard and soft consonants are and how to determine them so as not to make mistakes in phonetic analysis.

What consonants are called hard and soft

Consonants are those in which there is noise. When we pronounce them, the exhaled air encounters obstacles: the special position of the tongue, lips, teeth, palate. This is where the characteristic consonant sound comes from.

Consonants can be hard or soft, voiced or voiceless.

• Soft consonants - sounds, during the pronunciation of which the middle of the tongue rises, and the tip approaches the teeth.

• Solid consonants are sounds in which the tongue does not make additional movements.

Therefore, we pronounce hard and soft consonants differently. This can be seen if you say, for example, the words autumn and wasps . In the first case, the sound [s'] is soft and will sound appropriate. But in the second word [s] is a solid consonant sound, and this can also be heard from its sound.

Here are some more examples of the same consonants that represent hard and soft sounds.

Interestingly, the hardness or softness of a consonant is related to which vowel follows it. If after the consonant there are letters denoting the hardness of the sound ( a, o, y, s or e ), it will be hard, and if the letters denoting softness ( i, e, e, yu, and or b ), - soft. The exception is some borrowed words, for example pho[ne]tika .

For example:

• soft consonants: [d'e] revo, [v'e] black, when [b'e] reap, [v'a] knowledge, p[r'i] led, [l'u] day , etc. ;

• hard consonants: months [ta], k[ry] sha, [du] mother, [me] r etc.

Test yourself!

Determine which consonant sound is used in these words - [d] or [d']: see, home, winner, businesslike, victory, pest, meditation, bear

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Paired and unpaired consonants in terms of hardness-softness

Consonant sounds form pairs in terms of hardness-softness and are called, respectively, paired. Here is a table of all paired hard and soft consonants.

However, in Russian there are consonants that do not have such a pair: they can only be soft or only hard. Such sounds are called unpaired. For example, consonants [g], [w] and [c] do not have a pair, they are always solid. Even if in the word they are followed by letters that indicate the softness of consonants: i, e, e, u, and or b .

Example

Yellow [yellow], wide [shirok'y], walked [shol], life [zhyz'n'], you see [in'id'ish] , etc.

For convenience, we collected all paired and unpaired consonants in the memo below. Save and enjoy!

Test Yourself

Test your understanding of hard and soft consonants and letters with the tasks below.

Task 1

Name:

• 10 hard consonant words;

• 5 words that always contain hard consonants;

• 10 soft consonant words;

• 5 words with always soft consonants.

Task 2

Read the words below and mark the hard consonant sounds in them, and also indicate whether they are paired or unpaired in hardness-softness:

• wind,

• apple,

• grovel,

• Far East,

• approaching,

• cauterize,

• pyramid,

• appearance,

• bait,

• important,

• cyclone,

• athletic,

• interferes.

Literate speech goes hand in hand with knowledge of phonetics. If you need to analyze this topic in detail and not miss the details, we advise you to additionally study with a teacher. In the Skysmart online Russian language school courses, students will be able to immerse themselves in phonetics and figure out which consonants are always hard or always soft, and then consolidate the new on exciting tasks. This will help you understand the topic better and improve your grades in school

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Lesson 13: Voiced and voiceless consonants

In Russian, we distinguish voiced (with the participation of tone - sound) and deaf (only with noise) consonants.

The influence of the subsequent consonant on the quality of the previous one is called regressive assimilation , this is, for example, stunning or voicing of consonants in Russian.

Voiced consonants other than sonorants at the end of words are pronounced as the corresponding voiceless ones:

Voiced consonants in the middle of a word before voiceless are stunned

Voiceless consonants in the middle of a word before voiced are voiced (pronounced as voiced):

Before the consonant "v", as well as before sonorants "l", "m", "n", "r" and before vowels, consonants do not change their quality: consonant, is stunned by and pronounced like [f]:

The preposition "s" before a word beginning with a voiced consonant (except "v"), , is voiced and pronounced like "з":

Exercise

Exercise 13.

1

Indicate which of these letters represent voiced and which voiceless sounds. Name the corresponding paired sounds.

/v/, /w/, /h/, /t/, /m/, /r/, /s/, /b/, /k/, /x/, /c/

Exercise 13.2

Listen and write syllables

yes - ta	th - ko
to - more	ms - sha
wu-fu	su-zu

Exercise 13.3

Transcribe

Today I will go to the park with a friend.

Give me h and a clean knife, a spoon and a mug!

I made one osh and in dictation.

For lunch I and had a delicious cake.

Our train and was late to the station.

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