move
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, move 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
- 14cove, dove
What it means
- nounthe act of deciding to do something
- nounthe act of changing your residence or place of business
- nouna change of position that does not entail a change of location
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m uw1 v — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
9 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- approve
- disapprove
- disprove
- groove
- improve
- prove
- remove
- behoove
- countermove
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.