tows
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, tows sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 5stow, twos
- One letter away
- 28bows, cows
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and tows is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is tow — the act of hauling something (as a vehicle) by means of a hitch or rope. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ow1 z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
139 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- arose
- bestows
- blows
- boroughs
- bulldoze
- bungalows
- cameos
- cargoes
- chose
- commandos
- compose
- crossbows
- crows
- decompose
- disclose
- dispose
- dominoes
- doze
- elbows
- embryos
- enclose
- expose
- falsettos
- flows
Its letters, rearranged
5 other words use exactly these letters: stow, twos, swot, wost, wots.
One letter away
- bows
- cows
- hows
- lows
- mows
- rows
- sows
- toes
- tons
- tops
- toss
- tots
- town
- toys
- vows
- wows
- pows
- togs
- toms
- tors
- dows
- jows
- nows
- taws
- tods
- tews
- towy
- yows
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.