mess
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, mess sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 14less, mass
What it means
- nouna state of confusion and disorderliness
- nouninformal terms for a difficult situation
- nounsoft semiliquid food
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m eh1 s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
71 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abscess
- access
- acquiesce
- address
- assess
- bless
- carefulness
- caress
- chess
- coalesce
- confess
- convalesce
- depress
- digress
- dispossess
- distress
- dress
- excess
- express
- faithfulness
- finesse
- guess
- impress
- less
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
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.