prey
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, prey sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1pyre
- One letter away
- 7pray, grey
What it means
- nouna person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence
- nounanimal hunted or caught for food
- verbprofit from in an exploitatory manner
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p r ey1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
237 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- allay
- anyway
- archway
- array
- ashtray
- astray
- attache
- away
- ballet
- bay
- betray
- birthday
- bouquet
- bray
- byway
- cabaret
- cafe
- castaway
- causeway
- chalet
- clay
- cliche
- communique
- convey
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: pyre.
One letter away
- pray
- grey
- prep
- trey
- pree
- prex
- prez
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.