snug
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, snug sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3gnus, guns
- One letter away
- 5slug, smug
What it means
- adjectiveoffering safety; well protected or concealed
- adjectivefitting closely but comfortably
- adjectivewell and tightly constructed
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s n ah1 g — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
25 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bug
- chug
- debug
- drug
- dug
- hug
- humbug
- jug
- ladybug
- lug
- mug
- plug
- rug
- shrug
- slug
- smug
- thug
- tug
- ugh
- earplug
- firebug
- jitterbug
- pug
- unplug
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: gnus, guns, sung.
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.