hoop

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, hoop sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1pooh

One letter away

9coop, hood

• nouna light curved skeleton to spread out a skirt
• nouna rigid circular band of metal or wood or other material used for holding or fastening or hanging or pulling
• nouna small arch used as croquet equipment

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh uw1 p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

28 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• coop
• droop
• dupe
• group
• loop
• nincompoop
• poop
• recoup
• scoop
• snoop
• soup
• stoop
• subgroup
• swoop
• troop
• troupe
• whoop
• coupe
• croup
• drupe
• goop
• intergroup
• paratroop
• regroup

One other word use exactly these letters: pooh.

• coop
• hood
• hoof
• hook
• hoot
• loop
• poop
• goop
• holp

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts H6,303
• Starts HO1,418
• Ends P
• 4 letters starting H

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.