rue
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, rue sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 13cue, due
What it means
- nounEuropean strong-scented perennial herb with grey-green bitter-tasting leaves; an irritant similar to poison ivy
- nounleaves sometimes used for flavoring fruit or claret cup but should be used with great caution: can cause irritation like poison ivy
- nounsadness associated with some wrong done or some disappointment
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r uw1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
168 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- accrue
- ado
- anew
- askew
- avenue
- bamboo
- barbecue
- blew
- blue
- boo
- breakthrough
- brew
- canoe
- caribou
- cashew
- chew
- clue
- construe
- coo
- corkscrew
- coup
- crew
- cuckoo
- cue
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 1% 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.