purse
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, purse sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2super, sprue
- One letter away
- 9curse, nurse
What it means
- nouna container used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women)
- nouna sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse
- nouna small bag for carrying money
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p er1 s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
25 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adverse
- averse
- coerce
- curse
- disburse
- disperse
- diverse
- hearse
- immerse
- intersperse
- inverse
- nurse
- perverse
- rehearse
- reimburse
- reverse
- terse
- transverse
- universe
- verse
- worse
- obverse
- submerse
- burse
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: super, sprue.
One letter away
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.