quash
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, quash sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 3quasi, quass
What it means
- verbput down by force or intimidation
- verbdeclare invalid
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k w ao1 sh — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
1 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- macintosh
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- quasi
- quass
- qursh
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.