cease
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, cease sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 6chase, lease
What it means
- noun(‘cease’ is a noun only in the phrase ‘without cease’) end
- verbput an end to a state or an activity
- verbhave an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s iy1 s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
31 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- apiece
- caprice
- centerpiece
- crease
- decrease
- fleece
- gees
- geese
- grease
- increase
- lease
- masterpiece
- mouthpiece
- niece
- obese
- peace
- piece
- police
- release
- syntheses
- altarpiece
- cerise
- crosspiece
- decease
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.