abuse

The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, abuse sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the second

Anagrams

1beaus

One letter away

2amuse, abase

• nouncruel or inhumane treatment
• nouna rude expression intended to offend or hurt
• nounimproper or excessive use

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 b y uw1 s — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.

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

• abstruse
• caboose
• coos
• deduce
• diffuse
• disuse
• excuse
• goose
• induce
• introduce
• juice
• loose
• moose
• mousse
• noose
• obtuse
• produce
• profuse
• recluse
• reduce
• reproduce
• reuse
• seduce
• sluice

One other word use exactly these letters: beaus.

• amuse
• abase

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AB622
• Ends E
• 5 letters starting A

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.