rip
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, rip sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 20dip, hip
What it means
- nouna dissolute man in fashionable society
- nounan opening made forcibly as by pulling apart
- nouna stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r ih1 p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
95 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- airstrip
- apprenticeship
- authorship
- battleship
- blip
- censorship
- championship
- chip
- citizenship
- clip
- companionship
- courtship
- dictatorship
- dip
- drip
- editorship
- equip
- fellowship
- fingertip
- flagship
- flip
- grip
- hip
- kinship
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% 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.