how
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, how sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1who
- One letter away
- 24bow, cow
What it means
Open English WordNet has no entry for how and no lemma one regular ending away from it. It is in the word list and in the size-ranked tiers, which is all this site knows about it. No definition is invented here.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh aw1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
44 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- allow
- anyhow
- avow
- bough
- bow
- brow
- chow
- cow
- disallow
- disavow
- endow
- eyebrow
- highbrow
- kowtow
- meow
- now
- plow
- powwow
- prow
- snowplow
- somehow
- southpaw
- sow
- vow
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: who.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% of the 972 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.