free
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, free sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2reef, fere
- One letter away
- 9flee, fret
What it means
- adjectivenot limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint
- adjectiveunconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion
- adjectivecosting nothing
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f r iy1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
293 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ability
- absentee
- actuality
- actuary
- addressee
- adversity
- agree
- anarchy
- apologetically
- apology
- apostrophe
- appointee
- be
- bee
- bourgeoisie
- bumblebee
- carefree
- catchy
- company
- compatibility
- culturally
- daintily
- debris
- decree
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: reef, fere.
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.