The vowels
The crossword clue "The vowels" is answered by AEIOU, a 5-letter entry. Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1969. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
AEIOU
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the AEIOU answer page.
Used 11 times across 10 distinct years; most recently in 2016; first recorded in 1969. It appears in 4 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for AEIOU
Every other clue in this collection answered by AEIOU, most used first.
- Vowel quintet - used 30 times, most recently in 2026
- Vowel sequence - used 28 times, most recently in 2026
- Alphabet quintet - used 23 times, most recently in 2026
- Vowel group - used 20 times, most recently in 2026
- Alphabetic quintet - used 9 times, most recently in 2025
- Vowels - used 8 times, most recently in 2009
- The five vowels - used 7 times, most recently in 2025
- "___ and sometimes Y" - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
- Kindergarten quintet - used 6 times, most recently in 2015
- Vowel run - used 6 times, most recently in 2025
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- In the lead - AHEAD, used 166 times
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