bug

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, bug sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

3972 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

22bag, beg

• noungeneral term for any insect or similar creeping or crawling invertebrate
• nouna fault or defect in a computer program, system, or machine
• nouna small hidden microphone; for listening secretly

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ah1 g — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• chug
• debug
• drug
• dug
• hug
• humbug
• jug
• ladybug
• lug
• mug
• plug
• rug
• shrug
• slug
• smug
• snug
• thug
• tug
• ugh
• earplug
• firebug
• jitterbug
• pug
• unplug

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.

• bag
• beg
• big
• bog
• bud
• bum
• bun
• bus
• but
• buy
• dug
• hug
• jug
• lug
• mug
• rug
• tug
• bub
• bur
• fug
• pug
• vug

Same length, one position changed. 2% of the 972 words this long are a neighbour.

• 3 letter words972
• Starts B9,279
• Starts BU1,085
• Ends G
• 3 letters starting B

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.