elegy
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, elegy sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 3stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
- nouna mournful poem; a lament for the dead
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as eh1 l ah0 jh iy2 — 3 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
293 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ability
- absentee
- actuality
- actuary
- addressee
- adversity
- agree
- anarchy
- apologetically
- apology
- apostrophe
- appointee
- be
- bee
- bourgeoisie
- bumblebee
- carefree
- catchy
- company
- compatibility
- culturally
- daintily
- debris
- decree
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 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.