less
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, less sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1sels
- One letter away
- 16lass, legs
What it means
- adjective(comparative of ‘little’ usually used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning not as great in amount or degree
- adjective(usually preceded by ‘no’) lower in quality
- adjective(nonstandard in some uses but often idiomatic with measure phrases) fewer
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l eh1 s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
71 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abscess
- access
- acquiesce
- address
- assess
- bless
- carefulness
- caress
- chess
- coalesce
- confess
- convalesce
- depress
- digress
- dispossess
- distress
- dress
- excess
- express
- faithfulness
- finesse
- guess
- impress
- mess
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: sels.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.