recap
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, recap sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3caper, crape
- One letter away
- 2remap, becap
What it means
- nouna summary at the end that repeats the substance of a longer discussion
- nouna used automobile tire that has been remolded to give it new treads
- verbsummarize briefly
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r iy1 k ae2 p — 2 syllables, 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
- rap
- sap
- scrap
- slap
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: caper, crape, pacer.
One letter away
- remap
- becap
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.