now
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, now sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2own, won
- One letter away
- 25bow, cow
What it means
- nounthe momentary present
- adverbin the historical present; at this point in the narration of a series of past events
- adverbin these times
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as n 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
- how
- kowtow
- meow
- plow
- powwow
- prow
- snowplow
- somehow
- southpaw
- sow
- vow
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: own, won.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 3% 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.