niche
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, niche sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1chine
- One letter away
- 2fiche, miche
What it means
- nouna position particularly well suited to the person who or organization which occupies it
- nouna small concavity
- nounan enclosure that is set back or indented
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as n ih1 ch — 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.
- bewitch
- bitch
- ditch
- enrich
- hitch
- itch
- pitch
- rich
- snitch
- stitch
- switch
- twitch
- which
- witch
- fitch
- glitch
- kitsch
- unhitch
- ich
- lich
- stich
- wich
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: chine.
One letter away
- fiche
- miche
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.