crash
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, crash sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1chars
- One letter away
- 5brash, clash
What it means
- nouna loud resonant repeating noise
- nouna serious accident (usually involving one or more vehicles)
- nouna sudden large decline of business or the prices of stocks (especially one that causes additional failures)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k r ae1 sh — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
37 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ash
- backlash
- backslash
- bash
- brash
- cache
- cash
- clash
- dash
- eyelash
- flash
- gash
- gnash
- hash
- lash
- mash
- mustache
- rash
- rehash
- sash
- slash
- smash
- splash
- thrash
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: chars.
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.