cap
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, cap sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1pac
- One letter away
- 25cab, cad
What it means
- nouna tight-fitting headdress
- nouna top (as for a bottle)
- nouna mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k ae1 p — 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.
- bootstrap
- burlap
- catnap
- chap
- clap
- crap
- entrap
- flap
- gap
- handicap
- kidnap
- kneecap
- lap
- madcap
- map
- mishap
- nap
- overlap
- pap
- rap
- recap
- sap
- scrap
- slap
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: pac.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 3% 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.