decoy
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, decoy sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 1coyed
- One letter away
- 4decay, decry
What it means
- nouna beguiler who leads someone into danger (usually as part of a plot)
- nounsomething used to lure fish or other animals into danger so they can be trapped or killed
- verblure or entrap with or as if with a decoy
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d ah0 k oy1 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
33 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ahoy
- alloy
- annoy
- bellboy
- boy
- convoy
- corduroy
- cowboy
- coy
- destroy
- employ
- enjoy
- joy
- ploy
- schoolboy
- tomboy
- toy
- attaboy
- busboy
- carboy
- cloy
- deploy
- highboy
- playboy
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: coyed.
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.