mesh
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, mesh sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1hems
- One letter away
- 6mash, mess
What it means
- nounthe number of openings per linear inch of a screen; measures size of particles
- nouncontact by fitting together
- nounthe topology of a network whose components are all connected directly to every other component
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m eh1 sh — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
9 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: hems.
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.