shrug
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, shrug sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1gursh
- One letter away
- 2shrub, sprug
What it means
- nouna gesture involving the shoulders
- verbraise one's shoulders to indicate indifference or resignation
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as sh r ah1 g — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
25 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bug
- chug
- debug
- drug
- dug
- hug
- humbug
- jug
- ladybug
- lug
- mug
- plug
- rug
- slug
- smug
- snug
- thug
- tug
- ugh
- earplug
- firebug
- jitterbug
- pug
- unplug
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: gursh.
One letter away
- shrub
- sprug
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.