draws
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, draws sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2wards, sward
- One letter away
- 9drabs, drags
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and draws is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is draw — a gully that is shallower than a ravine. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d r ao1 z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
26 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- applause
- because
- clause
- claws
- flaws
- gauze
- gnaws
- guffaws
- jaws
- laws
- outlaws
- pause
- paws
- saws
- straws
- thaws
- withdraws
- bylaws
- chainsaws
- handsaws
- haws
- macaws
- scofflaws
- daws
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: wards, sward.
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.