surge
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, surge sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2urges, grues
- One letter away
- 5purge, sarge
What it means
- nouna sudden forceful flow
- nouna sudden or abrupt strong increase
- nouna large sea wave
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s er1 jh — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
15 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: urges, grues.
One letter away
- purge
- sarge
- serge
- gurge
- surgy
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.