leech
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, leech 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
- 3beech, leach
What it means
- nouncarnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms typically having a sucker at each end
- nouna follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage
- verbdraw blood
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l iy1 ch — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
19 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- beach
- beech
- beseech
- bleach
- breach
- each
- impeach
- leach
- microfiche
- peach
- preach
- reach
- screech
- speech
- teach
- breech
- outreach
- overreach
- seabeach
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.