shape
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, shape sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3heaps, phase
- One letter away
- 8shade, shake
What it means
- nounany spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline)
- nounthe spatial arrangement of something as distinct from its substance
- nounalternative names for the body of a human being
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as sh ey1 p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
17 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: heaps, phase, ephas.
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.