chew
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, chew sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 10chef, chow
What it means
- nouna wad of something chewable as tobacco
- nounbiting and grinding food in your mouth so it becomes soft enough to swallow
- verbchew (food); to bite and grind with the teeth
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ch uw1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
168 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- accrue
- ado
- anew
- askew
- avenue
- bamboo
- barbecue
- blew
- blue
- boo
- breakthrough
- brew
- canoe
- caribou
- cashew
- clue
- construe
- coo
- corkscrew
- coup
- crew
- cuckoo
- cue
- debut
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.