boy
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, boy sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1yob
- One letter away
- 20bay, boa
What it means
- nouna youthful male person
- nouna friendly informal reference to a grown man
- nouna male human offspring
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b oy1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
33 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ahoy
- alloy
- annoy
- bellboy
- convoy
- corduroy
- cowboy
- coy
- decoy
- destroy
- employ
- enjoy
- joy
- ploy
- schoolboy
- tomboy
- toy
- attaboy
- busboy
- carboy
- cloy
- deploy
- highboy
- playboy
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: yob.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% 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.