holy
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, holy sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 11hold, hole
What it means
- adjectivebelonging to or derived from or associated with a divine power
- nouna sacred place of pilgrimage
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh ow1 l iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
9 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- goalie
- lowly
- slowly
- wholly
- guacamole
- nucleoli
- ravioli
- unholy
- moly
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
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.