mass
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, mass 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
- 22bass, lass
What it means
- adjectiveformed of separate units gathered into a mass or whole
- nounthe property of a body that causes it to have weight in a gravitational field
- noun(often followed by ‘of’) a large number or amount or extent
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m ae1 s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
42 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- alas
- amass
- ass
- bass
- bluegrass
- bras
- brass
- bypass
- class
- crass
- crevasse
- fiberglass
- gas
- glass
- grass
- harass
- hourglass
- impasse
- jackass
- lass
- morass
- outclass
- overpass
- pass
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.