pique
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, pique sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1equip
- One letter away
- 1fique
What it means
- nountightly woven fabric with raised cords
- nouna sudden outburst of anger
- verbcause to feel resentment or indignation
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p iy1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
52 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- antique
- beak
- bleak
- boutique
- cheek
- chic
- clique
- creak
- creek
- critique
- eke
- freak
- greek
- leak
- leek
- meek
- oblique
- peak
- peek
- physique
- reek
- seek
- sheikh
- shriek
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: equip.
One letter away
- fique
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.