web

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, web sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

3972 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

8wed, wee

• nounan intricate network suggesting something that was formed by weaving or interweaving
• nounan intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim
• nounthe flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w eh1 b — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

4 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• cobweb
• ebb
• celeb
• deb

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.

• wed
• wee
• wet
• deb
• neb
• wen
• reb
• wab

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 972 words this long are a neighbour.

• 3 letter words972
• Starts W3,694
• Starts WE496
• Ends B
• 3 letters starting W

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.