queue
The filled squares are the 4 vowels — 4 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, queue sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
- nouna line of people or vehicles waiting for something
- noun(information processing) an ordered list of tasks to be performed or messages to be transmitted
- nouna braid of hair at the back of the head
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k y 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
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.
Same length, one position changed.
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.