taper
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, taper sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4apter, prate
- One letter away
- 16caper, paper
What it means
- nouna convex shape that narrows toward a point
- nounthe property possessed by a shape that narrows toward a point (as a wedge or cone)
- nouna loosely woven cord (in a candle or oil lamp) that draws fuel by capillary action up into the flame
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ey1 p er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
13 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: apter, prate, pater, peart.
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.