sues
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, sues sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1uses
- One letter away
- 18cues, dues
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and sues is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is sue — institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s uw1 z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
103 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- accrues
- accuse
- amuse
- avenues
- barbecues
- blues
- boos
- booze
- breakthroughs
- brews
- bruise
- canoes
- cashews
- chews
- choose
- clues
- confuse
- coups
- crews
- cruise
- cues
- dues
- ensues
- ewes
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: uses.
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.