soup

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, soup sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1opus

One letter away

9coup, soap

• nounliquid food especially of meat or fish or vegetable stock often containing pieces of solid food
• nounany composition having a consistency suggestive of soup
• nounan unfortunate situation

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s uw1 p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

28 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• coop
• droop
• dupe
• group
• hoop
• loop
• nincompoop
• poop
• recoup
• scoop
• snoop
• stoop
• subgroup
• swoop
• troop
• troupe
• whoop
• coupe
• croup
• drupe
• goop
• intergroup
• paratroop
• regroup

One other word use exactly these letters: opus.

The whole set on one page.

• coup
• soap
• soul
• sour
• souk
• sous
• loup
• roup
• scup

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts S18,988
• Starts SO1,226
• Ends P
• 4 letters starting S

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.