couch
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, couch 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
- 9coach, cough
What it means
- nounan upholstered seat for more than one person
- nouna flat coat of paint or varnish used by artists as a primer
- nouna narrow bed on which a patient lies during psychiatric or psychoanalytic treatment
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k aw1 ch — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
7 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.