swab
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, swab sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1wabs
- One letter away
- 10scab, slab
What it means
- nounimplement consisting of a small piece of cotton that is used to apply medication or cleanse a wound or obtain a specimen of a secretion
- nouncleaning implement consisting of absorbent material fastened to a handle; for cleaning floors
- verbwash with a swab or a mop
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s w aa1 b — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
22 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- blob
- bob
- cob
- gob
- hobnob
- job
- knob
- lob
- mob
- rob
- slob
- snob
- sob
- throb
- blowjob
- cobb
- corncob
- glob
- heartthrob
- hob
- kebab
- thingamabob
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: wabs.
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.