douse
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, douse sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 11house, louse
What it means
- verbput out, as of a candle or a light
- verbwet thoroughly
- verbdip into a liquid
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d aw1 s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
49 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- blouse
- clubhouse
- courthouse
- doghouse
- greenhouse
- grouse
- house
- lighthouse
- louse
- madhouse
- mouse
- outhouse
- penthouse
- playhouse
- powerhouse
- rouse
- spouse
- storehouse
- warehouse
- alehouse
- blockhouse
- boardinghouse
- boathouse
- clearinghouse
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.