gravy
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, gravy sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 2grave, grapy
What it means
- nouna sauce made by adding stock, flour, or other ingredients to the juice and fat that drips from cooking meats
- nounthe seasoned but not thickened juices that drip from cooking meats; often a little water is added
- nouna sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g r ey1 v iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
3 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 5 letters.
One letter away
- grave
- grapy
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.