loop
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, loop sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2polo, pool
- One letter away
- 11coop, hoop
What it means
- nounfastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines
- nounanything with a round or oval shape (formed by a curve that is closed and does not intersect itself)
- noun(computer science) a single execution of a set of instructions that are to be repeated
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l uw1 p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
28 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- coop
- droop
- dupe
- group
- hoop
- nincompoop
- poop
- recoup
- scoop
- snoop
- soup
- stoop
- subgroup
- swoop
- troop
- troupe
- whoop
- coupe
- croup
- drupe
- goop
- intergroup
- paratroop
- regroup
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: polo, pool.
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.