gory
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, gory sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2orgy, gyro
- One letter away
- 7gore, cory
What it means
- adjectivecovered with blood
- adjectiveaccompanied by bloodshed
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g ao1 r iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
83 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- allegory
- auditory
- category
- circulatory
- contributory
- defamatory
- derogatory
- discriminatory
- dormitory
- explanatory
- glory
- inflammatory
- inventory
- laboratory
- lavatory
- lorry
- mandatory
- migratory
- obligatory
- observatory
- oratory
- predatory
- preparatory
- purgatory
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: orgy, gyro.
One letter away
- gore
- cory
- dory
- gorp
- tory
- goby
- lory
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.