flag
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, flag sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 13flak, flap
What it means
- nounemblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design
- nouna listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.
- nounplants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f l ae1 g — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
29 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
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.