tea
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, tea sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4ate, eat
- One letter away
- 13pea, sea
What it means
- nouna beverage made by steeping tea leaves in water
- nouna light midafternoon meal of tea and sandwiches or cakes
- nouna tropical evergreen shrub or small tree extensively cultivated in e.g. China and Japan and India; source of tea leaves
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t iy1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
293 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ability
- absentee
- actuality
- actuary
- addressee
- adversity
- agree
- anarchy
- apologetically
- apology
- apostrophe
- appointee
- be
- bee
- bourgeoisie
- bumblebee
- carefree
- catchy
- company
- compatibility
- culturally
- daintily
- debris
- decree
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: ate, eat, eta, tae.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 1% of the 972 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.