pup
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, pup sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 18cup, pap
What it means
- nounyoung of any of various canines such as a dog or wolf
- nounan inexperienced young person
- verbgive birth to (a puppy)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ah1 p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
37 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- buttercup
- checkup
- cup
- holdup
- letup
- makeup
- pickup
- sup
- teacup
- up
- backup
- blowup
- breakup
- buildup
- cleanup
- eggcup
- hookup
- lineup
- linkup
- lockup
- markup
- pileup
- roundup
- setup
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% of the 972 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.