ready
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, ready sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3deary, rayed
- One letter away
- 6beady, heady
What it means
- adjectivecompletely prepared or in condition for immediate action or use or progress
- adjective(of especially money) immediately available
- adjectivementally disposed
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r eh1 d iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
7 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: deary, rayed, deray.
One letter away
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.