phase
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, phase sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3heaps, shape
- One letter away
- 4chase, phage
What it means
- nounany distinct time period in a sequence of events
- noun(physical chemistry) a distinct state of matter in a system; matter that is identical in chemical composition and physical state and separated from other material by the phase boundary
- nouna particular point in the time of a cycle; measured from some arbitrary zero and expressed as an angle
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f ey1 z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
155 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ablaze
- allays
- always
- amaze
- appraise
- arrays
- ashtrays
- ballets
- bays
- betrays
- birthdays
- blase
- blaze
- bouquets
- braise
- byways
- cabarets
- cafes
- castaways
- causeways
- chalets
- cliches
- communiques
- conveys
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: heaps, shape, ephas.
One letter away
- chase
- phage
- prase
- pease
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.