idea
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, idea sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 3stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 1aide
- One letter away
- 4idem, ides
What it means
- nounthe content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
- nounyour intention; what you intend to do
- nouna personal view
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ay0 d iy1 ah0 — 3 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
28 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
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Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: aide.
One letter away
- idem
- ides
- ilea
- odea
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.