scrub
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, scrub sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1curbs
- One letter away
- 2shrub, scrum
What it means
- adjective(of domestic animals) not selectively bred
- noundense vegetation consisting of stunted trees or bushes
- nounthe act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s k r ah1 b — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
17 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: curbs.
One letter away
- shrub
- scrum
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.