ply
The filled squares are the 0 vowels — 0 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, ply sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 4fly, pay
What it means
- nounone of the strands twisted together to make yarn or rope or thread; often used in combination
- noun(usually in combinations) one of several layers of cloth or paper or wood as in plywood
- verbgive what is desired or needed, especially support, food or sustenance
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p l ay1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
176 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- alibi
- alkali
- amplify
- apply
- awry
- aye
- beautify
- belie
- butterfly
- buy
- by
- bye
- certify
- chi
- clarify
- classify
- comply
- crucify
- cry
- decry
- defy
- deify
- deny
- die
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 972 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.