list all words of the form "_i_e" where "_" is a consonant and "e" is optional, using 2 paradigms

_i_e.ts

const divTrunc = (n: number, d: number) => Math.trunc(n / d)

const createArray = <T,>(length: number, filler: (i: number) => T) =>
	Array.from({ length }, (_, i) => filler(i))

const CONSONANTS = 'bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz'

/** imperative */
function procedural() {
	const out: string[] = []
	for (const pre of CONSONANTS)
		for (const c of CONSONANTS) {
			const tmp = pre + 'i' + c
			// for simplicity, we're using dynamic allocation
			out.push(tmp)
			out.push(tmp + 'e')
		}
	return out
}
const proc = procedural()
console.log(proc)

/** declarative */
const functional = () => createArray(CONSONANTS.length ** 2 * 2, i =>
	// for the sake of optimization,
	// we precompute the length,
	// instead of doing recursion with dynamic array allocation
	CONSONANTS[divTrunc(i, 2 * CONSONANTS.length)]
	+ 'i'
	+ CONSONANTS[divTrunc(i, 2) % CONSONANTS.length]
	+ (i % 2 ? 'e' : '')
)
const fn = functional()
console.log(fn)

const del = ' '
console.assert(proc.join(del) === fn.join(del))

I wrote this code to check if english is phonetically consistent with respect to the pronunciation of these words, lol. So far, I haven't found any inconsistency, it seems there's a pattern