jazz

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, jazz sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

1razz

• nounempty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk
• nouna genre of popular music that originated in New Orleans around 1900 and developed through increasingly complex styles
• nouna style of dance music popular in the 1920s; similar to New Orleans jazz but played by large bands

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as jh ae1 z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• as
• has
• topaz
• whereas
• razzmatazz
• spaz
• pizazz

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.

• razz

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

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts J1,376
• Starts JA396
• Ends Z
• 4 letters starting J

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.