live
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, live sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3evil, veil
- One letter away
- 17dive, five
What it means
- adjectiveactually being performed at the time of hearing or viewing
- adjectiveexerting force or containing energy
- adjectivepossessing life
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ay1 v — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
20 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- alive
- archive
- arrive
- beehive
- contrive
- deprive
- derive
- dive
- drive
- five
- hive
- revive
- strive
- survive
- thrive
- connive
- jive
- nosedive
- overdrive
- shive
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: evil, veil, vile.
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.