serve
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, serve sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3sever, veers
- One letter away
- 4nerve, verve
What it means
- noun(sports) a stroke that puts the ball in play
- verbserve a purpose, role, or function
- verbdo duty or hold offices; serve in a specific function
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s er1 v — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
10 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: sever, veers, verse.
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.