straw
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, straw sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2warts, swart
- One letter away
- 4strap, stray
What it means
- adjectiveof a pale yellow color like straw; straw-colored
- nounplant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder
- nounmaterial consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s t r 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
- law
- outlaw
- overdraw
- oversaw
- paw
- redraw
- saw
- seesaw
- thaw
- withdraw
- aw
- bylaw
- craw
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: warts, swart.
One letter away
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.