reef
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, reef sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2free, fere
- One letter away
- 7beef, reed
What it means
- nouna submerged ridge of rock or coral near the surface of the water
- nounone of several strips across a sail that can be taken in or rolled up to lessen the area of the sail that is exposed to the wind
- verblower and bring partially inboard
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r iy1 f — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
24 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- beef
- belief
- brief
- chief
- debrief
- disbelief
- grief
- leaf
- motif
- relief
- sheaf
- thief
- aperitif
- cloverleaf
- fief
- leitmotif
- lief
- massif
- sharif
- keef
- kief
- longleaf
- seif
- reif
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: free, fere.
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.