ass
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, ass sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 11ads, ash
What it means
- nounthe fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- nouna pompous fool
- nounhardy and sure-footed animal smaller and with longer ears than the horse
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
42 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- alas
- amass
- bass
- bluegrass
- bras
- brass
- bypass
- class
- crass
- crevasse
- fiberglass
- gas
- glass
- grass
- harass
- hourglass
- impasse
- jackass
- lass
- mass
- morass
- outclass
- overpass
- pass
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
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.