large
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, large sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4glare, lager
- One letter away
- 7barge, largo
What it means
- adjectiveabove average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent
- adjectivefairly large or important in effect; influential
- adjectiveostentatiously lofty in style
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l aa1 r jh — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
12 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- barge
- charge
- discharge
- enlarge
- overcharge
- surcharge
- marge
- recharge
- sarge
- supercharge
- countercharge
- mischarge
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: glare, lager, regal, argle.
One letter away
- barge
- largo
- marge
- sarge
- laree
- parge
- targe
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.