mu
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 2 letters. In the size-ranked list, mu sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 296 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1um
- One letter away
- 8ma, me
What it means
- nounthe 12th letter of the Greek alphabet
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m uw1 — one syllable, 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
One other word use exactly these letters: um.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 8% of the 96 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.