rap
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, rap sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1par
- One letter away
- 27cap, gap
What it means
- nouna reproach for some lapse or misdeed
- nouna gentle blow
- nounthe sound made by a gentle blow
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r ae1 p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
42 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bootstrap
- burlap
- cap
- catnap
- chap
- clap
- crap
- entrap
- flap
- gap
- handicap
- kidnap
- kneecap
- lap
- madcap
- map
- mishap
- nap
- overlap
- pap
- recap
- sap
- scrap
- slap
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: par.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 3% 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.