case
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, case sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1aces
- One letter away
- 20base, cafe
What it means
- nounan occurrence of something
- nouna special set of circumstances
- nouna comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k ey1 s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
67 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ace
- aerospace
- base
- birthplace
- bookcase
- brace
- briefcase
- chase
- commonplace
- database
- debase
- deface
- disgrace
- displace
- embrace
- encase
- erase
- face
- fireplace
- grace
- interface
- lace
- mace
- marketplace
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: aces.
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.