awful
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, awful sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
- adjectiveexceptionally bad or displeasing
- adjectivecausing fear or dread or terror
- adjectiveoffensive or even (of persons) malicious
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as aa1 f ah0 l — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
2 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- waffle
- falafel
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.
Same length, one position changed.
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.