ebb
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, ebb sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
- nouna gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)
- nounthe outward flow of the tide
- verbflow back or recede
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as eh1 b — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
4 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- cobweb
- web
- celeb
- deb
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
One letter away
No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.
Same length, one position changed.
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.