5 letter words with no vowels

Our dictionary holds 54 5 letter words with no vowels, all exactly 5 letters long. The highest-scoring of them is HYPHY, worth 19 points in Scrabble.

More of these words begin with S than any other letter — 11 of them, about 20% of the list.

6 appear in the 20,000 most common English words (11%), including lynch, myths, gypsy, crypt, lymph; the remaining 48 are rarer finds that still count as valid plays.