awe
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, awe sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1wae
- One letter away
- 15ace, age
What it means
- nounan overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration
- nouna feeling of profound respect for someone or something
- verbinspire awe in
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as aa1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
49 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ah
- bourgeois
- bra
- curricula
- ha
- hurrah
- ma
- pa
- qua
- raw
- spa
- aha
- baccarat
- bah
- blah
- brouhaha
- chihuahua
- chutzpah
- coleslaw
- dada
- feta
- grandpa
- hoopla
- huzzah
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: wae.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% of the 972 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.