easy

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, easy sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

3ayes, yeas

One letter away

2ease, east

• adjectiveposing no difficulty; requiring little effort
• adjectivefree from worry or anxiety
• adjectivenot hurried or forced

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as iy1 z iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

6 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• breezy
• queasy
• sleazy
• uneasy
• cheesy
• marchese

3 other words use exactly these letters: ayes, yeas, eyas.

The whole set on one page.

• ease
• east

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts E7,067
• Starts EA207
• Ends Y
• 4 letters starting E

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.