alibi

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

3stress on the first

Anagrams

1biali

One letter away

0none in this dictionary

• noun(law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that they could not have committed the crime in question
• nouna defense of some offensive behavior or some failure to keep a promise etc.
• verbexonerate by means of an alibi

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 l ah0 b ay2 — 3 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• alkali
• amplify
• apply
• awry
• aye
• beautify
• belie
• butterfly
• buy
• by
• bye
• certify
• chi
• clarify
• classify
• comply
• crucify
• cry
• decry
• defy
• deify
• deny
• die
• dignify

One other word use exactly these letters: biali.

No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.

Same length, one position changed.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AL969
• Ends I
• 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.