yew
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, yew sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1wye
- One letter away
- 17dew, few
What it means
- nounwood of a yew; especially the durable fine-grained light brown or red wood of the English yew valued for cabinetwork and archery bows
- nounany of numerous evergreen trees or shrubs having red cup-shaped berries and flattened needlelike leaves
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as y uw1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
168 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- accrue
- ado
- anew
- askew
- avenue
- bamboo
- barbecue
- blew
- blue
- boo
- breakthrough
- brew
- canoe
- caribou
- cashew
- chew
- clue
- construe
- coo
- corkscrew
- coup
- crew
- cuckoo
- cue
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: wye.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% 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.