reply
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, reply sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 1plyer
- One letter away
- 3repay, redly
What it means
- nouna statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation
- nounthe speech act of continuing a conversational exchange
- verbreact verbally
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r ih0 p l ay1 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
176 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- alibi
- alkali
- amplify
- apply
- awry
- aye
- beautify
- belie
- butterfly
- buy
- by
- bye
- certify
- chi
- clarify
- classify
- comply
- crucify
- cry
- decry
- defy
- deify
- deny
- die
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: plyer.
One letter away
- repay
- redly
- refly
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.