deify
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, deify sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 3stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1edify
- One letter away
- 2deity, reify
What it means
- verbconsider as a god or godlike
- verbexalt to the position of a God
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d iy1 ah0 f ay2 — 3 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
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
- defy
- deny
- die
- dignify
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: edify.
One letter away
- deity
- reify
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.