oboe
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, oboe sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 1obol
What it means
- nouna slender double-reed instrument; a woodwind with a conical bore and a double-reed mouthpiece
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ow1 b ow0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
2 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- hobo
- lobo
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
- obol
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.