debug
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, debug sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 1budge
- One letter away
- 1debut
What it means
- verblocate and correct errors in a computer program code
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d iy0 b ah1 g — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
25 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bug
- chug
- drug
- dug
- hug
- humbug
- jug
- ladybug
- lug
- mug
- plug
- rug
- shrug
- slug
- smug
- snug
- thug
- tug
- ugh
- earplug
- firebug
- jitterbug
- pug
- unplug
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: budge.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.