sow
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, sow sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1wos
- One letter away
- 26bow, cow
What it means
- nounan adult female hog
- verbplace (seeds) in or on the ground for future growth
- verbintroduce into an environment
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s aw1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
44 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- allow
- anyhow
- avow
- bough
- bow
- brow
- chow
- cow
- disallow
- disavow
- endow
- eyebrow
- highbrow
- how
- kowtow
- meow
- now
- plow
- powwow
- prow
- snowplow
- somehow
- southpaw
- vow
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: wos.
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.