using
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, using sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1suing
- One letter away
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
- nounan act that exploits or victimizes someone (treats them unfairly)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as y uw1 z ih0 ng — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
26 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abusing
- accusing
- amusing
- bruising
- choosing
- confusing
- cruising
- diffusing
- excusing
- fusing
- infusing
- losing
- misusing
- musing
- oozing
- perusing
- refusing
- snoozing
- boozing
- defusing
- overusing
- recusing
- reusing
- schmoozing
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: suing.
One letter away
No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.
Same length, one position changed.
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.