eaves
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, eaves 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
- 13caves, eases
What it means
- nounthe overhang at the lower edge of a roof
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as iy1 v z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
25 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- achieves
- believes
- cleaves
- eves
- grieves
- heaves
- leaves
- peeves
- perceives
- receives
- relieves
- retrieves
- sheaves
- sleeves
- thieves
- weaves
- interleaves
- misconceives
- recitatives
- reeves
- greaves
- misperceives
- neves
- reaves
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.