The Top 50 Most Played Vowel Dumps in Scrabble That Have 5 or More Letters

A "vowel dump" is a word with a lot of vowels that you play in order to keep your rack balanced or simply because you have a lot of vowels. We will define a vowel dump as being a word with n letters and roundup(n/2)+1 or more vowels. Here "roundup" means round up fractions to the next highest integer. The following chart makes the definition concrete:

length         minimum number
of word        of vowels            example
-------        --------------       -------

   3                 3              eau
   4                 3              ajee
   5                 4              zoeae
   6                 4              outvie
   7                 5              taeniae
   8                 5              eulogiae
   9                 6              aboiteaus

In general, vowel dumps with 4 or fewer letters are played far more often than those with 5 or more letters. The list below gives the most commonly played vowel dumps with 5 letters or more presented in playrank order starting with the most often played word of the bunch AQUAE.

1. aquae
2. zoeae
3. aerie
4. oorie
5. aioli
6. eerie
7. equate
8. areae
9. cooee
10. looie
11. adieu
12. aalii
13. oidia
14. ourie
15. aecia
16. aurei
17. louie
18. equine
19. audio
20. queue
21. quinoa
22. outvie
23. foveae
24. miaou
25. quaere
26. toonie
27. etoile
28. feijoa
29. avenue
30. aerier
31. iolite
32. agouti
33. aviate
34. oilier
35. faerie
36. zouave
37. augite
38. oreide
39. uraei
40. ourari
41. eosine
42. auntie
43. heinie
44. zooier
45. goatee
46. aurae
47. aerugo
48. aeried
49. quelea
50. otiose

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