annoy
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, annoy sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
- verbcause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 n oy1 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
33 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ahoy
- alloy
- bellboy
- boy
- convoy
- corduroy
- cowboy
- coy
- decoy
- destroy
- employ
- enjoy
- joy
- ploy
- schoolboy
- tomboy
- toy
- attaboy
- busboy
- carboy
- cloy
- deploy
- highboy
- playboy
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.
Same length, one position changed.
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.