Consonantcy
Two or more words or phrases share the same consonants in the same order, with any number of vowels. Y is treated as a vowel. Example: acorn, crayon, ocarina.
The solution: ONE = begin, TWO = beguine, THREE = begonia.
The consonantcy was invented by Newrow in 1991.
In a reversed consonantcy, the consonants of the second word or phrase are reversed with respect to the consonants in the first word or phrase. Example: syzygy, gazes.
In a phonetic consonantcy, the words share the same consonant sounds, but not the same spellings. (\y\ is considered a consonant.) Example: Roxy, wracks, irks. As in this example, the phonemes \r\ and \ər\ are both treated as \r\. See the section on phonetic flats for more discussion.
In a consonantcy deletion, consonants are deleted one by one from a starting word, and the basewords are consonantcies of the results. Examples: consonant,
consent; amounting, untongue, Antigua. The consonantcy deletion was invented by Newrow.
One can also apply the consonantcy idea to other flat types. For example, in a consonantcy word deletion, the inner word to be deleted is a consonantcy for some central section of the main word; the remaining consonants are used in the outer word. Examples: quartz; rote, quiz; and situation comedy; tonic, esteemed. It was also invented by Newrow.
Seealso successive consonantcy.