shrub
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, shrub sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2brush, buhrs
- One letter away
- 2scrub, shrug
What it means
- nouna low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as sh r ah1 b — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
17 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: brush, buhrs.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.