moss
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, moss 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
- 27boss, loss
What it means
- nountiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m ao1 s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
20 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- across
- crisscross
- cross
- dos
- dross
- emboss
- gloss
- lacrosse
- loss
- mos
- sauce
- toss
- applesauce
- cos
- doss
- recross
- coss
- joss
- pross
- koss
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
- boss
- loss
- mass
- mess
- miss
- mobs
- moms
- moos
- mops
- most
- mows
- muss
- toss
- doss
- mods
- mots
- coss
- foss
- joss
- moas
- mocs
- mogs
- mols
- mons
- mors
- koss
- mosk
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.