ash
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, ash sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2has, sha
- One letter away
- 4ask, ass
What it means
- nounthe residue that remains when something is burned
- nounany of various deciduous pinnate-leaved ornamental or timber trees of the genus Fraxinus
- nounstrong elastic wood of any of various ash trees; used for furniture and tool handles and sporting goods such as baseball bats
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 sh — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
37 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- backlash
- backslash
- bash
- brash
- cache
- cash
- clash
- crash
- dash
- eyelash
- flash
- gash
- gnash
- hash
- lash
- mash
- mustache
- rash
- rehash
- sash
- slash
- smash
- splash
- thrash
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: has, sha.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 972 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.