bush

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, bush sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1hubs

One letter away

13bash, bust

• adjectivenot of the highest quality or sophistication
• nouna low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
• nouna large wilderness area

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b uh1 sh — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• ambush
• push
• rosebush
• tush
• shadbush

One other word use exactly these letters: hubs.

The whole set on one page.

• bash
• bust
• busy
• gush
• hush
• lush
• mush
• push
• rush
• bosh
• busk
• buss
• tush

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

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts B9,279
• Starts BU1,085
• Ends H
• 4 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.