bias
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, bias sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1isba
- One letter away
- 11bibs, bids
What it means
- adjectiveslanting diagonally across the grain of a fabric
- nouna partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
- nouna line or cut across a fabric that is not at right angles to a side of the fabric
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ay1 ah0 s — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
2 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- pious
- impious
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: isba.
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.