flaw
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, flaw sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 14claw, flag
What it means
- nounan imperfection in an object or machine
- noundefect or weakness in a person's character
- nounan imperfection in a plan or theory or legal document that causes it to fail or that reduces its effectiveness
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f l ao1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
42 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- caw
- chainsaw
- claw
- draw
- foresaw
- gnaw
- guffaw
- hacksaw
- jaw
- jigsaw
- law
- outlaw
- overdraw
- oversaw
- paw
- redraw
- saw
- seesaw
- straw
- thaw
- withdraw
- aw
- bylaw
- craw
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
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.