law
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, law sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1awl
- One letter away
- 26caw, jaw
What it means
- nounthe collection of rules imposed by authority
- nounlegal document setting forth rules governing a particular kind of activity
- nouna rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as 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
- flaw
- foresaw
- gnaw
- guffaw
- hacksaw
- jaw
- jigsaw
- outlaw
- overdraw
- oversaw
- paw
- redraw
- saw
- seesaw
- straw
- thaw
- withdraw
- aw
- bylaw
- craw
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: awl.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 3% 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.