cage
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, cage sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 17cafe, cake
What it means
- nounan enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept
- nounsomething that restricts freedom as a cage restricts movement
- nounthe net that is the goal in ice hockey
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k ey1 jh — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
23 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- age
- backstage
- disengage
- engage
- enrage
- gauge
- offstage
- outrage
- page
- rage
- rampage
- sage
- stage
- teenage
- wage
- assuage
- downstage
- gage
- onstage
- upstage
- macrophage
- phage
- restage
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
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.