like
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, like 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
- 17bike, dike
What it means
- adjectiveresembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination
- adjectiveequal in amount or value
- adjectivehaving the same or similar characteristics
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ay1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
64 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- alike
- bike
- childlike
- dike
- dislike
- dyke
- hike
- hitchhike
- ladylike
- lifelike
- mike
- motorbike
- pike
- spike
- strike
- turnpike
- unlike
- warlike
- apelike
- berrylike
- birdlike
- businesslike
- catlike
- doglike
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
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.