eve
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, eve sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1vee
- One letter away
- 6eke, ewe
What it means
- nounthe day before
- nounthe period immediately before something
- nounthe latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as iy1 v — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
33 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- achieve
- believe
- cleave
- conceive
- deceive
- disbelieve
- grieve
- heave
- interweave
- leave
- naive
- peeve
- perceive
- receive
- relieve
- reprieve
- retrieve
- sleeve
- weave
- aggrieve
- bereave
- eave
- interleave
- misconceive
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: vee.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% 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.