cover
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, cover sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 17coves, covet
What it means
- nouna covering that serves to conceal or shelter something
- nounbedding that keeps a person warm in bed
- nounthe act of concealing the existence of something by obstructing the view of it
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k ah1 v er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
11 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.