tube

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, tube sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1bute

One letter away

8cube, tuba

• nounconduit consisting of a long hollow object (usually cylindrical) used to hold and conduct objects or liquids or gases
• nounelectronic device consisting of a system of electrodes arranged in an evacuated glass or metal envelope
• nouna hollow cylindrical shape

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t uw1 b — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

5 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• cube
• boob
• jujube
• lube
• rube

One other word use exactly these letters: bute.

• cube
• tuba
• tubs
• tune
• lube
• rube
• jube
• tule

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts T8,747
• Starts TU578
• Ends E
• 4 letters starting T

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.