nerve
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, nerve sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1never
- One letter away
- 3serve, verve
What it means
- nounany bundle of nerve fibers running to various organs and tissues of the body
- nounthe courage to carry on
- nounimpudent aggressiveness
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as n er1 v — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
10 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: never.
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.