gas
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, gas sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1sag
- One letter away
- 23gab, gag
What it means
- nounthe state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container
- nouna fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely
- nouna volatile flammable mixture of hydrocarbons (hexane and heptane and octane etc.) derived from petroleum; used mainly as a fuel in internal-combustion engines
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g ae1 s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
42 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- alas
- amass
- ass
- bass
- bluegrass
- bras
- brass
- bypass
- class
- crass
- crevasse
- fiberglass
- glass
- grass
- harass
- hourglass
- impasse
- jackass
- lass
- mass
- morass
- outclass
- overpass
- pass
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: sag.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% 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.