grub
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, grub sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1burg
- One letter away
- 4grab, drub
What it means
- nouninformal terms for a meal
- nouna soft thick wormlike larva of certain beetles and other insects
- verbask for and get free; be a parasite
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g r ah1 b — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
17 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: burg.
One letter away
- grab
- drub
- grue
- grum
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.