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which is the longest word in English without vowels?

The longest word is TWYNDYLLYNGS .

Twyndyllyngs is the longest word in English that doesn't contain one of the five vowels (AEIOU). It comes from Welsh and is obviously rare, but it does appear in the Oxford English Dictionary. It turns out that "twyndyllyng" (singular) is a 15th century spelling of the word "twinling," which means, in modern English, "twin."

However, the longest common English word without vowels is RHYTHMS.


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