hives
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, hives sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1shive
- One letter away
- 12dives, fives
What it means
- nounan itchy skin eruption characterized by weals with pale interiors and well-defined red margins; usually the result of an allergic response to insect bites or food or drugs
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh ay1 v z — 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.
- afterlives
- archives
- arrives
- deprives
- derives
- dives
- drives
- fives
- housewives
- knives
- midwives
- revives
- strives
- survives
- thrives
- wives
- alewives
- chives
- rives
- shives
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: shive.
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.