minus
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, minus sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1munis
- One letter away
- 9menus, minds
What it means
- adjectiveon the negative side or lower end of a scale
- adjectiveinvolving disadvantage or harm
- nounan arithmetic operation in which the difference between two numbers is calculated
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m ay1 n ah0 s — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
6 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- dryness
- shyness
- sinus
- slyness
- highness
- wryness
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: munis.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.