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I'm a big fan of words that use w as their only vowel, like crwth, cwm, and pwll. Pwll is especially good because even if they get P and L, most guessers will go through any common vowels they haven't yet tried, and run out of guesses before they even consider W.

If I ever get divorced it's going to be due to my insistence that I was correctly taught "a, e, i, o, u and sometimes y and w" as my vowels.

I don't know Welsh. What is the pronunciation of "Pwll"?

Guessing l and/or n isn't too unlikely, and there aren't many words that look like l.n.; I think that explains why lynx doesn't do so well?

Or that a player will plow through all the vowels early, and -y-- doesn't match many words.

I like "queueing" for its long run of vowels. It's not terribly difficult to guess, but does tend to confuse people.

Also good are nymph, zephyr, and syzygy.

phlegm works fairly well, too.