tying
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, tying sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 6dying, lying
What it means
- nounthe act of tying or binding things together
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ay1 ih0 ng — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
85 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- amplifying
- applying
- belying
- buying
- certifying
- clarifying
- classifying
- complying
- crying
- decrying
- defying
- denying
- disqualifying
- diversifying
- drying
- dyeing
- dying
- electrifying
- exemplifying
- eyeing
- falsifying
- flying
- fortifying
- frying
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.