abyss
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, abyss sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 1bassy
- One letter away
- 2abyes, abysm
What it means
- nouna bottomless gulf or pit; any unfathomable (or apparently unfathomable) cavity or chasm or void extending below (often used figuratively)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 b ih1 s — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
22 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: bassy.
One letter away
- abyes
- abysm
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.