parse
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, parse sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 11pares, pears
- One letter away
- 10passe, pause
What it means
- verbanalyze syntactically by assigning a constituent structure to (a sentence)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p aa1 r s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
5 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- farce
- sparse
- carse
- marse
- arse
Its letters, rearranged
11 other words use exactly these letters: pares, pears, rapes, reaps, spare, spear, apers, apres, asper, prase, presa.
One letter away
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.