thug
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, thug sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 4chug, thud
What it means
- nounan aggressive and violent young criminal
- verbActing like a criminal or antisocially but with positive connotations
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as th 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
- shrug
- slug
- smug
- snug
- tug
- ugh
- earplug
- firebug
- jitterbug
- pug
- unplug
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
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.