wolf

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, wolf sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

2flow, fowl

One letter away

4golf, woof

• nounany of various predatory carnivorous canine mammals of North America and Eurasia that usually hunt in packs
• nouna man who is aggressive in making amorous advances to women
• nouna cruelly rapacious person

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w uh1 l f — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

1 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• werewolf

2 other words use exactly these letters: flow, fowl.

The whole set on one page.

• golf
• woof
• wold
• rolf

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts W3,694
• Starts WO578
• Ends F
• 4 letters starting W

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.