mouse
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, mouse sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2moues, meous
- One letter away
- 11douse, house
What it means
- nounany of numerous small rodents typically resembling diminutive rats having pointed snouts and small ears on elongated bodies with slender usually hairless tails
- nouna swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
- nounperson who is quiet or timid
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m aw1 s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
49 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- blouse
- clubhouse
- courthouse
- doghouse
- douse
- greenhouse
- grouse
- house
- lighthouse
- louse
- madhouse
- outhouse
- penthouse
- playhouse
- powerhouse
- rouse
- spouse
- storehouse
- warehouse
- alehouse
- blockhouse
- boardinghouse
- boathouse
- clearinghouse
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: moues, meous.
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.