notch
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, notch sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 4botch, natch
What it means
- nouna V-shaped indentation
- nounthe location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks
- nouna V-shaped or U-shaped indentation carved or scratched into a surface
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as n aa1 ch — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
12 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- botch
- natch
- hotch
- rotch
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.