bash
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, bash sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 19base, bask
What it means
- nouna vigorous blow
- nounan uproarious party
- verbhit hard
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b 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.
- ash
- backlash
- backslash
- brash
- cache
- cash
- clash
- crash
- dash
- eyelash
- flash
- gash
- gnash
- hash
- lash
- mash
- mustache
- rash
- rehash
- sash
- slash
- smash
- splash
- thrash
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.