Can you name the six most common English words beginning with each vowel? by SuperDayv

Can you name the six most common English words beginning with each vowel?

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Source: The Reading Teachers Book of Lists, Third Edition
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A
#3 overall
#4 overall
#15 overall
#16 overall
#21 overall
#34 overall

E
#44 overall
#153 overall
#160 overall
#202 overall
#219 overall
#220 overall

I
#6 overall
#7 overall
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#20 overall
#50 overall
#67 overall

O
#2 overall
#14 overall
#26 overall
#27 overall
#53 overall
#55 overall

U
#42 overall
#52 overall
#174 overall
#224 overall
#252 overall
#321 overall

Y
#8 overall
#38 overall
#110 overall
#292 overall
#471 overall
#474 overall

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Most Common Words per Vowel Quiz

by SuperDayv

Created Mar 21, 2010 in Language
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	Jamessir:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 22:21 GMT	0 points
	Well done!

	JayHankEdLyon:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 22:55 GMT	10 points
	Y isn't a vowel in the onset of a syllable, only in the nucleus and coda. So no word beginning with Y is using that Y as a vowel.

	miyomiyo1:	Jun 28th, 2010 at 13:41 GMT	5 points
	Unlike some quizzes dealing with vowels, the Y debate is pretty clear in this one. Even though Y isn't a vowel in you, your, year, young, yes, or yet, and U is consonant-like in use or usually, and, strangely enough, O is consonant-like in one, it's obvious that the vowel-ness of the vowel is not important. Beyond that, well-made and thought-provoking quiz, 5 orbcles.

	Scottique:	Jul 21st, 2010 at 19:18 GMT	3 points
	Interesting! I'd be nice to give bonus answers, perhaps, for the next several in each category--I was surprised that ever, am, our, and about didn't make their lists, and it'd have been fun to see where other good guesses ranked.

	zifyoip:	Jul 24th, 2010 at 19:55 GMT	6 points
	@JayHankEdLyon: That's not quite true. Y is a vowel in such words as yttrium, ytterbium, ylem, yclept, ylang-ylang, ylid, Yquem, Ypres, Ypsilanti, and Yggdrasil.

	BroadwayBookworm:	Aug 1st, 2010 at 16:26 GMT	3 points
	Fun quiz! Though, when I entered "a" the word "and" popped up as a correct answer as well.

	millionaire:	Aug 2nd, 2010 at 03:56 GMT	4 points
	@BroadwayBookworm: That's just because A, The, and And are all automatically accepted on Sporcle.

	Thryduulf:	Nov 6th, 2011 at 22:02 GMT	1 point
	@millionaire: that is a setting that can be changed - there are plenty of quizes where "the", "a" and "and" are all separate answers.