windy
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, windy 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
- 5winds, lindy
What it means
- adjectiveabounding in or exposed to the wind or breezes
- adjectivenot practical or realizable; speculative
- adjectiveresembling the wind in speed, force, or variability
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w ih1 n d iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
2 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- indie
- lindy
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- winds
- lindy
- widdy
- winey
- wingy
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.