catch
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, catch 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
- 9batch, hatch
What it means
- nouna drawback or difficulty that is not readily evident
- nounthe quantity that was caught
- nouna person regarded as a good matrimonial prospect
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k ae1 ch — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
18 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- attach
- batch
- detach
- dispatch
- hatch
- latch
- match
- mismatch
- patch
- scratch
- snatch
- thatch
- reattach
- rematch
- brach
- mache
- overmatch
- potlatch
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.