miss
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, miss sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2isms, sims
- One letter away
- 17hiss, kiss
What it means
- nouna young female
- nouna failure to hit (or meet or find etc.)
- verbfail to perceive or to catch with the senses or the mind
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m ih1 s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
22 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: isms, sims.
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.