guise
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, guise 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
- 2guide, guile
What it means
- nounan artful or simulated semblance
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g ay1 z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
358 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- advertise
- advise
- agonize
- alibis
- alkalies
- amplifies
- analyze
- antagonize
- apologize
- applies
- arise
- authorize
- ayes
- baptize
- belies
- butterflies
- buys
- capitalize
- capsize
- categorize
- centralize
- certifies
- characterize
- chastise
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.