alike
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, alike sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 2alive, aline
What it means
- adjectivehaving the same or similar characteristics
- adverbequally
- adverbin a like manner
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 l ay1 k — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
64 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bike
- childlike
- dike
- dislike
- dyke
- hike
- hitchhike
- ladylike
- lifelike
- like
- mike
- motorbike
- pike
- spike
- strike
- turnpike
- unlike
- warlike
- apelike
- berrylike
- birdlike
- businesslike
- catlike
- doglike
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- alive
- aline
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.