globe
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, globe sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1bogle
- One letter away
- 4glove, globs
What it means
- nounthe 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on
- nounan object with a spherical shape
- nouna sphere on which a map (especially of the earth) is represented
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g l ow1 b — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
9 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: bogle.
One letter away
- glove
- globs
- glebe
- gloze
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.