blues
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, blues sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1lubes
- One letter away
- 10blued, bluer
What it means
- nouna type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes
- nouna state of depression
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b l 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
- boos
- booze
- breakthroughs
- brews
- bruise
- canoes
- cashews
- chews
- choose
- clues
- confuse
- coups
- crews
- cruise
- cues
- dues
- ensues
- ewes
- fuse
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: lubes.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.