lily
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, lily sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2illy, yill
- One letter away
- 6lilt, oily
What it means
- nounany liliaceous plant of the genus Lilium having showy pendulous flowers
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ih1 l iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
18 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- chili
- chilly
- filly
- frilly
- hilly
- involuntarily
- really
- silly
- billie
- billy
- chile
- dilly
- fusilli
- gillie
- rockabilly
- villi
- willy
- gilly
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: illy, yill.
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.