chi
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, chi sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2hic, ich
- One letter away
- 3phi, ghi
What it means
- nounthe circulating life energy that in Chinese philosophy is thought to be inherent in all things; in traditional Chinese medicine the balance of negative and positive forms in the body is believed to be essential for good health
- nounthe 22nd letter of the Greek alphabet
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k ay1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
176 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- alibi
- alkali
- amplify
- apply
- awry
- aye
- beautify
- belie
- butterfly
- buy
- by
- bye
- certify
- clarify
- classify
- comply
- crucify
- cry
- decry
- defy
- deify
- deny
- die
- dignify
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: hic, ich.
One letter away
- phi
- ghi
- khi
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.