push
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, push sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 12bush, gush
What it means
- nounthe act of applying force in order to move something away
- nounthe force used in pushing
- nounenterprising or ambitious drive
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p uh1 sh — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
5 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ambush
- bush
- rosebush
- tush
- shadbush
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
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.