louse
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, louse sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1ousel
- One letter away
- 13douse, house
What it means
- nounwingless usually flattened bloodsucking insect parasitic on warm-blooded animals
- nouna person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect
- nounany of several small insects especially aphids that feed by sucking the juices from plants
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l aw1 s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
49 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- blouse
- clubhouse
- courthouse
- doghouse
- douse
- greenhouse
- grouse
- house
- lighthouse
- madhouse
- mouse
- outhouse
- penthouse
- playhouse
- powerhouse
- rouse
- spouse
- storehouse
- warehouse
- alehouse
- blockhouse
- boardinghouse
- boathouse
- clearinghouse
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: ousel.
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.