dowry

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, dowry sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2rowdy, wordy

One letter away

3dowdy, downy

• nounmoney or property brought by a woman to her husband at marriage

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d aw1 r iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

2 other words use exactly these letters: rowdy, wordy.

The whole set on one page.

• dowdy
• downy
• cowry

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts D10,149
• Starts DO1,048
• Ends Y
• 5 letters starting D

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.