poise
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, poise 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
- 6noise, posse
What it means
- nouna cgs unit of dynamic viscosity equal to one dyne-second per square centimeter; the viscosity of a fluid in which a force of one dyne per square centimeter maintains a velocity of 1 centimeter per second
- nouna state of being balanced in a stable equilibrium
- noungreat coolness and composure under strain
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p oy1 z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
16 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- alloys
- annoys
- boys
- convoys
- cowboys
- destroys
- employs
- enjoys
- joys
- noise
- ploys
- schoolboys
- toys
- busboys
- deploys
- homeboys
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- noise
- posse
- hoise
- paise
- peise
- prise
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.