decay
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, decay sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 6decoy, decry
What it means
- nounthe process of gradually becoming inferior
- nouna gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current
- nounthe organic phenomenon of rotting
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d ih0 k ey1 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
237 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- allay
- anyway
- archway
- array
- ashtray
- astray
- attache
- away
- ballet
- bay
- betray
- birthday
- bouquet
- bray
- byway
- cabaret
- cafe
- castaway
- causeway
- chalet
- clay
- cliche
- communique
- convey
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.