cower
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, cower sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 17cover, cowed
What it means
- verbcrouch or curl up
- verbshow submission or fear
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k aw1 er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
31 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- cauliflower
- devour
- dour
- empower
- flour
- flower
- glower
- horsepower
- hour
- manpower
- our
- overpower
- power
- scour
- shower
- sour
- sunflower
- tower
- willpower
- bower
- brainpower
- coneflower
- cornflower
- firepower
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.