scope
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, scope sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2copes, copse
- One letter away
- 6score, slope
What it means
- nounan area in which something acts or operates or has power or control:
- nounthe state of the environment in which a situation exists
- nouna magnifier of images of distant objects
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s k ow1 p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
37 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- antelope
- cantaloupe
- cope
- dope
- elope
- envelope
- grope
- gyroscope
- hope
- horoscope
- kaleidoscope
- lope
- microscope
- mope
- oscilloscope
- periscope
- pope
- rope
- slope
- soap
- stethoscope
- telescope
- tightrope
- endoscope
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: copes, copse.
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.