today
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, today sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 1toady
- One letter away
- 2toddy, tokay
What it means
- nounthe present time or age
- nounthe day that includes the present moment (as opposed to yesterday or tomorrow)
- adverbin these times
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ah0 d ey1 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
237 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- allay
- anyway
- archway
- array
- ashtray
- astray
- attache
- away
- ballet
- bay
- betray
- birthday
- bouquet
- bray
- byway
- cabaret
- cafe
- castaway
- causeway
- chalet
- clay
- cliche
- communique
- convey
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: toady.
One letter away
- toddy
- tokay
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.