guru
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, guru sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 1kuru
What it means
- nouna Hindu or Buddhist religious leader and spiritual teacher
- nouna recognized leader in some field or of some movement
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g uw1 r uw2 — 2 syllables, 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
- chew
- clue
- construe
- coo
- corkscrew
- coup
- crew
- cuckoo
- cue
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
- kuru
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.