ally
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, ally sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 5ably, agly
What it means
- nouna friendly nation
- nounan associate who provides cooperation or assistance
- verbbecome an ally or associate, as by a treaty or marriage
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 l ay0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
- ably
- agly
- alky
- illy
- alls
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.