rape
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, rape sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4pare, pear
- One letter away
- 18cape, gape
What it means
- nounEurasian plant cultivated for its seed and as a forage crop
- nounthe act of despoiling a country in warfare
- nounthe crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r ey1 p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
17 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ape
- cape
- crepe
- drape
- escape
- gape
- grape
- landscape
- scrape
- shape
- shipshape
- tape
- videotape
- agape
- audiotape
- reshape
- scape
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: pare, pear, reap, aper.
One letter away
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.