bribe
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, bribe sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 3bride, brine
What it means
- nounpayment made to a person in a position of trust to corrupt their judgment
- verbmake illegal payments to in exchange for favors or influence
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b r ay1 b — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
16 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ascribe
- describe
- diatribe
- gibe
- inscribe
- jibe
- prescribe
- scribe
- subscribe
- transcribe
- tribe
- circumscribe
- imbibe
- oversubscribe
- proscribe
- vibe
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.