bows
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, bows sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1swob
- One letter away
- 24boas, bobs
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and bows is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is bow — a knot with two loops and loose ends; used to tie shoelaces. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b aw1 z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
26 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- allows
- arouse
- boughs
- brows
- browse
- carouse
- chows
- cows
- endows
- eyebrows
- highbrows
- menopause
- mows
- plows
- powwows
- prows
- snowplows
- vows
- wows
- delouse
- dhows
- espouse
- howes
- taos
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: swob.
One letter away
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.