slow
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, slow sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2lows, owls
- One letter away
- 16blow, flow
What it means
- adjectivenot moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time
- adjectiveat a slow tempo
- adjectiveslow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s l ow1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
238 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aglow
- ago
- albino
- although
- archipelago
- audio
- banjo
- below
- bestow
- blow
- borough
- borrow
- buffalo
- bungalow
- calico
- cameo
- cargo
- commando
- crossbow
- crow
- doe
- domino
- dough
- dynamo
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: lows, owls.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.