inlay
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, inlay sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 1unlay
What it means
- noun(dentistry) a filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place
- nouna decoration made by fitting pieces of wood into prepared slots in a surface
- verbdecorate the surface of by inserting wood, stone, and metal
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ih1 n l ey2 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
237 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- allay
- anyway
- archway
- array
- ashtray
- astray
- attache
- away
- ballet
- bay
- betray
- birthday
- bouquet
- bray
- byway
- cabaret
- cafe
- castaway
- causeway
- chalet
- clay
- cliche
- communique
- convey
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- unlay
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.