Definitions
Speech sound made with an open vocal tract.
Word origin
From Middle English vowel, from Old French vouel, a variant of voyeul (whence French voyelle), from Latin vōcālis (“voiced”), itself a semantic loan of Koine Greek φωνῆεν (phōnêen). Doublet of vocal and vocalis.
Used in a sentence
“Hawaiian has either five or twenty-five vowels, depending on how they are counted.”
“The word facetiously is spelled with all six vowels in alphabetical order.”
“The word cwm, borrowed from Welsh, is an example of the letter w serving as a vowel in English.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“A or E”5 letters
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