alive
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, alive 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
- 3alike, olive
What it means
- adjectivepossessing life
- adjective(often followed by ‘with’) full of life and spirit
- adjectivehaving life or vigor or spirit
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 l ay1 v — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
20 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- archive
- arrive
- beehive
- contrive
- deprive
- derive
- dive
- drive
- five
- hive
- live
- revive
- strive
- survive
- thrive
- connive
- jive
- nosedive
- overdrive
- shive
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
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.