poppy
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, poppy sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 8puppy, pappy
What it means
- nounannual or biennial or perennial herbs having showy flowers
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p aa1 p iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
8 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- choppy
- copy
- floppy
- jalopy
- photocopy
- sloppy
- gloppy
- soppy
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- puppy
- pappy
- peppy
- poppa
- soppy
- hoppy
- loppy
- popsy
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.