sub
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, sub sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1bus
- One letter away
- 17cub, dub
What it means
- nouna large sandwich made of a long crusty roll split lengthwise and filled with meats and cheese (and tomato and onion and lettuce and condiments); different names are used in different sections of the United States
- nouna submersible warship usually armed with torpedoes
- verbbe a substitute
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s 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
One other word use exactly these letters: bus.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% 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.