Last week, I published a blog post featuring playable four-letter words with three vowels. Knowing those words, and others with multiple vowels, proves useful when you’re faced with a rack of mostly, or all, vowels. Here’s a list of the remaining playable four-letter words with three vowels, beginning with the letters in the second half of the alphabet:
- naoi: ancient temples (pl. of naos)
- obia: form of sorcery practiced in the Caribbean (also obeah)
- odea: concert halls (pl. of odeum)
- ogee: an S-shaped molding
- ohia: a Polynesian tree with bright flowers (also lehua)
- olea: corrosive solutions (pl. of oleum)
- olio: a miscellaneous collection
- ouzo: a Turkish anise-flavored liquor
- raia: a non-Muslim Turk (also rayah)
- roue: a lecherous old man
- toea: a currency in Papua, New Guinea
- unai: a two-toed sloth (pl. unai; an ai is a three-toed sloth)
- zoea: the larvae of some crustaceans
Next Up
Wordplay Day! To prepare for class, revisit the Dictionary and World Builder pages on the Scrabble website, the Merriam-Webster Scrabble Word Finder page, and review the blog posts devoted to Scrabble tips,
Jane Lucas 