ray
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, ray sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2rya, yar
- One letter away
- 26bay, day
What it means
- nouna column of light (as from a beacon)
- nouna branch of an umbel or an umbelliform inflorescence
- noun(mathematics) a straight line extending from a point
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r ey1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
237 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- allay
- anyway
- archway
- array
- ashtray
- astray
- attache
- away
- ballet
- bay
- betray
- birthday
- bouquet
- bray
- byway
- cabaret
- cafe
- castaway
- causeway
- chalet
- clay
- cliche
- communique
- convey
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: rya, yar.
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.