drape
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, drape sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3pared, raped
- One letter away
- 5grape, crape
What it means
- nounhanging cloth used as a blind (especially for a window)
- nounthe manner in which fabric hangs or falls
- nouna sterile covering arranged over a patient's body during a medical examination or during surgery in order to reduce the possibility of contamination
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d r ey1 p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
17 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: pared, raped, padre.
One letter away
- grape
- crape
- drake
- drupe
- drave
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.