gig
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, gig sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 17big, dig
What it means
- nounlong and light rowing boat; especially for racing
- nounan implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish
- nouna cluster of hooks (without barbs) that is drawn through a school of fish to hook their bodies; used when fish are not biting
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g ih1 g — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
19 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
Same length, one position changed. 2% 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.