rev
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, rev sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 14red, rec
What it means
- nounrate of revolution of a motor
- verbincrease the number of rotations per minute
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r eh1 v — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
3 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- lev
- maglev
- dev
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
One letter away
- red
- rec
- ref
- reg
- rem
- rep
- res
- rex
- lev
- reb
- ree
- dev
- rei
- ret
Same length, one position changed. 1% of the 972 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.