clove
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, clove 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
- 5clone, close
What it means
- nounaromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice
- nounmoderate sized very symmetrical red-flowered evergreen widely cultivated in the tropics for its flower buds which are source of cloves
- nounone of the small bulblets that can be split off of the axis of a larger garlic bulb
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k l ow1 v — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
13 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
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.