know
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, know sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1wonk
- One letter away
- 6knew, knob
What it means
- nounthe fact of being aware of information that is known to few people
- verbbe cognizant or aware of a fact or a specific piece of information; possess knowledge or information about
- verbknow how to do or perform something
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as n ow1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
238 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aglow
- ago
- albino
- although
- archipelago
- audio
- banjo
- below
- bestow
- blow
- borough
- borrow
- buffalo
- bungalow
- calico
- cameo
- cargo
- commando
- crossbow
- crow
- doe
- domino
- dough
- dynamo
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: wonk.
One letter away
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.