dyke
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, dyke sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 8dike, duke
What it means
- noun(slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine
- nouna barrier constructed to contain the flow of water or to keep out the sea
- verbenclose with a dike
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d ay1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
64 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- alike
- bike
- childlike
- dike
- dislike
- hike
- hitchhike
- ladylike
- lifelike
- like
- mike
- motorbike
- pike
- spike
- strike
- turnpike
- unlike
- warlike
- apelike
- berrylike
- birdlike
- businesslike
- catlike
- doglike
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.