age
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, age sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1gae
- One letter away
- 12ace, ago
What it means
- nounhow long something has existed
- nounan era of history having some distinctive feature
- nouna time of life (usually defined in years) at which some particular qualification or power arises
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ey1 jh — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
23 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- backstage
- cage
- disengage
- engage
- enrage
- gauge
- offstage
- outrage
- page
- rage
- rampage
- sage
- stage
- teenage
- wage
- assuage
- downstage
- gage
- onstage
- upstage
- macrophage
- phage
- restage
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: gae.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 1% of the 972 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.