cows
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, cows sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1scow
- One letter away
- 27bows, caws
What it means
- noundomesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k 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
- bows
- brows
- browse
- carouse
- chows
- 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: scow.
One letter away
- bows
- caws
- cobs
- cods
- cogs
- cons
- coos
- cops
- cots
- hows
- lows
- mows
- rows
- sows
- tows
- vows
- wows
- cols
- cowl
- pows
- coss
- cowy
- coys
- dows
- jows
- nows
- yows
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.