puss
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, puss sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1sups
- One letter away
- 17fuss, muss
What it means
- nounobscene terms for female genitals
- nouninformal terms referring to a domestic cat
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p uh1 s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
2 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- octopus
- platypus
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: sups.
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.