CONSONANTCY X

The Enigma

NPL Magazine

March, 2026 

CONSONANTCY is a form of wordplay developed by The Enigma  in which two or more words or phrases share the same consonants in the same order, with any number of vowels in between (Y being treated as a vowel). For example, acorn, crayon, ocarina share the same consonants c - r - n in the same order, with various vowels in between.  

The keywords FAIR and FORAY in the flat below share consonantcy.

The travel guidebooks love to boast

About the famed Mosquito Coast.

If you should ever visit FAIR,

I'd FORAY you to see it there.

 

Answer:

 

If you should ever visit NICARAGUA,  

I'd ENCOURAGE you to see it there.

 

(The consonants N, C, R, G in NICARAGUA are repeated in the same order in ENCOURAGE.)