thaw
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, thaw sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1what
- One letter away
- 6than, that
What it means
- nounthe process whereby heat changes something from a solid to a liquid
- nounwarm weather following a freeze; snow and ice melt
- nouna relaxation or slackening of tensions or reserve; becoming less hostile
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as th ao1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
42 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- caw
- chainsaw
- claw
- draw
- flaw
- foresaw
- gnaw
- guffaw
- hacksaw
- jaw
- jigsaw
- law
- outlaw
- overdraw
- oversaw
- paw
- redraw
- saw
- seesaw
- straw
- withdraw
- aw
- bylaw
- craw
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: what.
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.