busy

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, busy sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1buys

One letter away

6buoy, bury

• adjectiveactively or fully engaged or occupied
• adjectiveovercrowded or cluttered with detail
• adjectiveintrusive in a meddling or offensive manner

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ih1 z iy0 — 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.

• dizzy
• tizzy

One other word use exactly these letters: buys.

The whole set on one page.

• buoy
• bury
• bush
• bust
• busk
• buss

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts B9,279
• Starts BU1,085
• Ends Y
• 4 letters starting B

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.