proxy

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, proxy 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

2prosy, prexy

• nouna person authorized to act for another
• nouna power of attorney document given by shareholders of a corporation authorizing a specific vote on their behalf at a corporate meeting

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p r aa1 k s iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

9 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• foxy
• boxy
• epoxy
• heterodoxy
• moxie
• orthodoxy
• doxie
• doxy
• oxy

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• prosy
• prexy

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts P14,566
• Starts PR3,726
• Ends Y
• 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.