happy
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, happy sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 9haply, harpy
What it means
- adjectiveenjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure
- adjectivemarked by good fortune
- adjectiveeagerly disposed to act or to be of service
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh ae1 p iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
4 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- snappy
- unhappy
- scrappy
- slaphappy
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- haply
- harpy
- nappy
- pappy
- sappy
- zappy
- gappy
- hippy
- hoppy
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.