dross
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, dross sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1sords
- One letter away
- 5cross, dress
What it means
- nounworthless or dangerous material that should be removed
- nounthe scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d r ao1 s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
20 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- across
- crisscross
- cross
- dos
- emboss
- gloss
- lacrosse
- loss
- mos
- moss
- sauce
- toss
- applesauce
- cos
- doss
- recross
- coss
- joss
- pross
- koss
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: sords.
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.