tease
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, tease sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1setae
- One letter away
- 6cease, lease
What it means
- nounsomeone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
- nouna seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
- nounthe act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule); provoking someone with persistent annoyances
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t iy1 z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
152 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abilities
- absentees
- agrees
- analyses
- antifreeze
- apologies
- apostrophes
- appease
- appendices
- appointees
- bees
- binaries
- breeze
- bumblebees
- cheese
- companies
- decrees
- degrees
- devotees
- diocese
- dioceses
- disagrees
- disease
- displease
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: setae.
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.