grief
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, grief sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 2brief, griff
What it means
- nounintense sorrow caused by loss of a loved one (especially by death)
- nounsomething that causes great unhappiness
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g r iy1 f — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
24 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- beef
- belief
- brief
- chief
- debrief
- disbelief
- leaf
- motif
- reef
- relief
- sheaf
- thief
- aperitif
- cloverleaf
- fief
- leitmotif
- lief
- massif
- sharif
- keef
- kief
- longleaf
- seif
- reif
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- brief
- griff
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.