ploy
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, ploy sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1poly
- One letter away
- 6play, plod
What it means
- nounan opening remark intended to secure an advantage for the speaker
- nouna maneuver in a game or conversation
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p l oy1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
33 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ahoy
- alloy
- annoy
- bellboy
- boy
- convoy
- corduroy
- cowboy
- coy
- decoy
- destroy
- employ
- enjoy
- joy
- schoolboy
- tomboy
- toy
- attaboy
- busboy
- carboy
- cloy
- deploy
- highboy
- playboy
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: poly.
One letter away
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.