retch

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, retch sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

—not in the pronouncing dictionary

Anagrams

1chert

One letter away

7fetch, reach

• nounan involuntary spasm of ineffectual vomiting
• verbeject the contents of the stomach through the mouth
• verbmake an unsuccessful effort to vomit; strain to vomit

Not one of the 50,962 words of ours that the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary covers, so this page prints no syllable count, no stress and no rhymes for it.

One other word use exactly these letters: chert.

• fetch
• reach
• ketch
• vetch
• letch
• rotch
• ratch

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts R10,159
• Starts RE6,681
• Ends H
• 5 letters starting R

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.