“Welsh Scrabble has no vowels”
The Welsh language is known—incorrectly—for its lack of vowels, and there are several Scrabble jokes.
“In Welsh Scrabble, you lose points for using vowels. True story” was posted on X/Twitter by Dan Adinolfi - RathmoreTV on May 25, 2009. “We lost all the vowels from our Scrabble set. So I sold it on Ebay as a Welsh edition” was posted on X/Twitter by Gᵢₙⱼₐᵣ 🫠 (and others) on July 24, 2012. “@Qiffypedia: Welsh Scrabble has no vowels” (the original tweet is no longer available) was posted on X/Twitter by Laurens Heling on November 26, 2013. “We lost all the vowels from our Scrabble game, so I sold it on Ebay as the Welsh edition” was posted on X/Twitter by Squiffy The Clown on July 25, 2015.
Wikipedia: Scrabble
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns and are included in a standard dictionary or lexicon.
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Dan Adinolfi - RathmoreTV
@pkdan14850
In Welsh Scrabble, you lose points for using vowels. True story.
8:13 AM · May 25, 2009
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Michael Vine
@MichaelGVine
#inappropriatemerchandise Welsh Scrabble (Like normal scrabble but without as many vowels)
7:14 PM · Mar 12, 2010
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Engage Productions
@Engage_Prod
Anyone ever played scrabble in welsh .... you don’t need vowels !!! Just put what you want down !!!
8:16 AM · Aug 21, 2011
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Gᵢₙⱼₐᵣ 🫠
@ginjar81
We lost all the vowels from our Scrabble set. So I sold it on Ebay as a Welsh edition.
5:38 AM · Jul 24, 2012
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Bob Kostic
@causticbob
We lost all the vowels from our Scrabble set. So I sold it on Ebay as a Welsh edition.
2:53 PM · Jul 24, 2012
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Laurens Heling
@laurenswh
“@Qiffypedia: Welsh Scrabble has no vowels.”
3:40 PM · Nov 26, 2013 from Zoetermeer, Nederland
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Chris Lewis
@CEJAYEL
Welsh scrabble. Like regular scrabble but with vowels replaced by L’s
6:24 AM · Nov 13, 2014
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Squiffy The Clown
@Squiffy2
We lost all the vowels from our Scrabble game, so I sold it on Ebay as the Welsh edition.
2:05 PM · Jul 25, 2015
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Bob Kostic
@causticbob
We lost all the vowels from our Scrabble set. So I sold it on Ebay as a Welsh edition.
9:09 AM · Oct 25, 2015
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Squiffy The Clown
@Squiffy2
We lost all the vowels from our Scrabble game, so I sold it on Ebay as the Welsh edition.
3:35 AM · Jul 25, 2016
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WalesOnCraic
@WalesOnCraic
#Welsh language #Scrabble to do away with vowels completely https://buff.ly/2y12kjl
4:20 AM · Oct 8, 2017
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Gerraint™ Oakley
@Gerraint
This is pretty much how I’m going to beat you at Scrabble @victor_dacunha “NEWS Welsh language #Scrabble to do away with vowels completely”
(A news story is shown.—ed.)
9:49 AM · Oct 8, 2017
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The Spectator
@spectator
Our cartoon at noon #cartoonatnoon
(A comic shows a person returning “Welsh Scrabble to Complaints. “Half the vowels are missing…”—ed.)
7:01 AM · Apr 30, 2018
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Pup Nemo
@PupNemo
And the language. I had a Welsh Scrabble set once. I had to return it as all the vowels were missing.
8:20 PM · Jan 31, 2019
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Robert Wilkinson
@robertwlk
I lost all the vowels from my Scrabble game but managed to sell it on eBay as the Welsh edition.
3:35 AM · Apr 16, 2021
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Nigel Bell 🍉
@nigel63.bsky.social
The really difficult element, I mean the REALLY DIFFICULT element to Welsh Scrabble is the no. of vowels:
6.
(😧)
(An illustration is shown.—ed.)
April 15, 2024 at 9:18 AM
Bluesky
dashingdrewster.bsky.social
@dashingdrewster.bsky.social
Welsh is like a scrabble game with most of the vowels missing
March 15, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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Stuart Barry
@BommyPastard62
Some arsehole pinched all the vowels from my Scrabble game . Not to worry, I’ve put it on eBay as the Welsh version
1:21 AM · Sep 25, 2025
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MoreVowelsThanEnglish
@welshisnormal
Oh Barry. We haven’t had the “welsh scrabble joke” for a while, but today it’s you.
Welsh scrabble contains MORE vowels than the English one, because Welsh contains more vowels than English.
7:11 PM · Oct 2, 2025