polyp

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, polyp sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1loppy

One letter away

1polys

• nouna small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane
• nounone of two forms that coelenterates take (e.g. a hydra or coral): usually sedentary with a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p aa1 l ih0 p — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

One other word use exactly these letters: loppy.

• polys

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts P14,566
• Starts PO1,866
• Ends P
• 5 letters starting P

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.