egg
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, egg sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 3ego, eng
What it means
- nounanimal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
- nounoval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
- nounone of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as eh1 g — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
8 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
One letter away
- ego
- eng
- erg
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 972 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.