genre
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, genre sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1green
- One letter away
- 2genie, genro
What it means
- nouna kind of literary or artistic work
- nouna style of expressing yourself in writing
- nouna class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as zh aa1 n r ah0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: green.
One letter away
- genie
- genro
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.