yoga
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, yoga sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 4toga, yogi
What it means
- noundiscipline aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility that is achieved through the three paths of actions and knowledge and devotion
- nouna system of physical, breathing and meditation exercises practiced to promote control of the body and mind
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as y ow1 g ah0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
1 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
- toga
- yogi
- yogh
- yuga
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.