joy
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, joy sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 13boy, coy
What it means
- nounthe emotion of great happiness
- nounsomething or someone that provides a source of happiness
- verbfeel happiness or joy
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as jh oy1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
33 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ahoy
- alloy
- annoy
- bellboy
- boy
- convoy
- corduroy
- cowboy
- coy
- decoy
- destroy
- employ
- enjoy
- ploy
- schoolboy
- tomboy
- toy
- attaboy
- busboy
- carboy
- cloy
- deploy
- highboy
- playboy
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 1% of the 972 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.