ape
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, ape sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1pea
- One letter away
- 12ace, age
What it means
- nounany of various primates with short tails or no tail at all
- nounsomeone who copies the words or behavior of another
- nounperson who resembles a nonhuman primate
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ey1 p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
17 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- cape
- crepe
- drape
- escape
- gape
- grape
- landscape
- rape
- scrape
- shape
- shipshape
- tape
- videotape
- agape
- audiotape
- reshape
- scape
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: pea.
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.