avow

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

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the second

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

2alow, avos

• verbto declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true
• verbadmit openly and bluntly; make no bones about

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 v aw1 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.

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

• allow
• anyhow
• bough
• bow
• brow
• chow
• cow
• disallow
• disavow
• endow
• eyebrow
• highbrow
• how
• kowtow
• meow
• now
• plow
• powwow
• prow
• snowplow
• somehow
• southpaw
• sow
• vow

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.

• alow
• avos

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

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AV187
• Ends W
• 4 letters starting A

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.