bowed
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, bowed sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 18boded, boned
What it means
- adjectiveof a stringed instrument; sounded by stroking with a bow
- adjectiveforming or resembling an arch
- adjectivehave legs that curve outward at the knees
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b aw1 d — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
21 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- allowed
- aloud
- avowed
- cloud
- cowed
- crowd
- disallowed
- disavowed
- endowed
- loud
- plowed
- proud
- shroud
- sowed
- vowed
- wowed
- enshroud
- overcrowd
- browed
- stroud
- ploughed
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.