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This is in the spirit of the What is a Word™/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.

If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it an Aerious Word™.

Use the examples below to find the rule.

Aerious Words™ Not Aerious Words™
TABLE COUNTER
CHAIR SEAT
ENGLISH CHINESE
FACETIOUS MISCHIEVOUS
TWENTY-SIX TWENTY-FIVE
LESSON LECTURE
ADBLOCK PLUS UBLOCK ORIGIN
BOOK READ
WATER COFFEE
PHOTOSHOP ILLUSTRATOR

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Aerious Words™,Not Aerious Words™
TABLE,COUNTER
CHAIR,SEAT
ENGLISH,CHINESE
FACETIOUS,MISCHIEVOUS
TWENTY-SIX,TWENTY-FIVE
LESSON,LECTURE
ADBLOCK PLUS,UBLOCK ORIGIN
BOOK,READ
WATER,COFFEE
PHOTOSHOP,ILLUSTRATOR

These are not the only examples of Aerious Words™, many more exist.

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Aerious Words™ are ...

words in which vowels appear in monotonically increasing order - that is, in an Aerious Word™, a vowel earlier in the sequence A, E, I, O, U never follows one later in that sequence.

They are Aerious Words™ because

AERIOUS contains all 5 vowels in order.

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  • $\begingroup$ Uuh, how did I not get that... $\endgroup$
    – Beastly Gerbil
    Dec 13, 2016 at 20:34
  • $\begingroup$ youtube.com/watch?v=U7XVcqZodAM&t=5 $\endgroup$
    – Rubio ♦
    Dec 13, 2016 at 20:40
  • $\begingroup$ Correct! Great job! $\endgroup$
    – Oliver Ni
    Dec 13, 2016 at 23:26
  • $\begingroup$ @OliverNi aerious is an aerious word $\endgroup$
    – new Q Open Wid
    Jan 16, 2021 at 3:29

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