pause
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, pause sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 4cause, parse
What it means
- nouna time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- nountemporary inactivity
- verbinterrupt temporarily an activity before continuing
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ao1 z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
26 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- applause
- because
- clause
- claws
- draws
- flaws
- gauze
- gnaws
- guffaws
- jaws
- laws
- outlaws
- paws
- saws
- straws
- thaws
- withdraws
- bylaws
- chainsaws
- handsaws
- haws
- macaws
- scofflaws
- daws
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.