maybe
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, maybe sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2beamy, embay
- One letter away
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
- adverbby chance
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m ey1 b iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
3 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- baby
- crybaby
- grandbaby
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: beamy, embay.
One letter away
No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.
Same length, one position changed.
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.