anew
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, anew sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 2wane, wean
- One letter away
- 2knew, anes
What it means
- adverbagain but in a new or different way
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 n uw1 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
168 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- accrue
- ado
- askew
- avenue
- bamboo
- barbecue
- blew
- blue
- boo
- breakthrough
- brew
- canoe
- caribou
- cashew
- chew
- clue
- construe
- coo
- corkscrew
- coup
- crew
- cuckoo
- cue
- debut
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: wane, wean.
One letter away
- knew
- anes
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.
Lists it belongs to
Tier: everyday. The tiers come from the English Speller Database and rank by list size, not by how often a word is used — see where the words come from.