gross
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, gross 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
- 9cross, dross
What it means
- adjectivebefore any deductions
- adjectivelacking fine distinctions or detail
- adjectiverepellently fat
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g r ow1 s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
20 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- cellulose
- close
- diagnose
- dose
- engross
- glucose
- grandiose
- morose
- overdose
- adios
- adipose
- bellicose
- centavos
- comatose
- fructose
- grosz
- nitrocellulose
- otiose
- arkose
- bowse
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
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.