leaf
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, leaf sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3flea, alef
- One letter away
- 9deaf, lead
What it means
- nounthe main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants
- nouna sheet of any written or printed material (especially in a manuscript or book)
- nounhinged or detachable flat section (as of a table or door)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l iy1 f — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
24 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- beef
- belief
- brief
- chief
- debrief
- disbelief
- grief
- motif
- reef
- relief
- sheaf
- thief
- aperitif
- cloverleaf
- fief
- leitmotif
- lief
- massif
- sharif
- keef
- kief
- longleaf
- seif
- reif
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: flea, alef, feal.
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.