defy
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, defy sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 6deft, deny
What it means
- verbresist or confront with resistance
- verbelude, especially in a baffling way
- verbchallenge
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d ih0 f ay1 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
176 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- alibi
- alkali
- amplify
- apply
- awry
- aye
- beautify
- belie
- butterfly
- buy
- by
- bye
- certify
- chi
- clarify
- classify
- comply
- crucify
- cry
- decry
- deify
- deny
- die
- dignify
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.