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Four Consecutive Consonant Strings

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A list of strings of 4 consecutive consonants that appear in words @Wordnik. Click on a searchable string to see a list of such words. You'll note I don't count the letter wye as a consonant. Invariably it acts as a vowel in long strings of consonants.

Note that the generated lists are not complete - *ckdr does not contain the term sneckdraw, nor does *pstr contain lapstrake despite their presence elsewhere @Wordnik.

Use the wildcard search string *#### to generate the 500-word list behind this list. 500 is such a round number, apparently arbitrarily set as the limit for search returns of this sort. The strings were initially entered in alphabetical order. Un-alphebetized entries at the end of the list (when sorted by order listed) are for the most part strings I've found that did not appear in the 500 words returned by the query, such as *tzkr in blitzkrieg(s), *ldcr in childcrowing (which word doesn't appear in that string's list), *rnbl in hornblendic, *lthr in calthrop, *shpr in crushproof and *rtfr in shirtfront.

I don't claim that this list is comprehensive. When you find another string of 4 consonants that isn't here, please feel free to add it in the form I have used here.

Note also that a word such as bergschrund that has 6 consecutive consonants will have 3 different strings of 4 consonants, in this case *rgsc, *gsch and *schr.

I omit strings containing a hyphen, such as *ngpl in chafing-plate (this string appears on the list anyway - gangplank).

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