rise
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, rise sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3sire, ires
- One letter away
- 16rice, ride
What it means
- nouna growth in strength or number or importance
- nounthe act of changing location in an upward direction
- nounan upward slope or grade (as in a road)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r ay1 z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
358 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- advertise
- advise
- agonize
- alibis
- alkalies
- amplifies
- analyze
- antagonize
- apologize
- applies
- arise
- authorize
- ayes
- baptize
- belies
- butterflies
- buys
- capitalize
- capsize
- categorize
- centralize
- certifies
- characterize
- chastise
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: sire, ires, reis.
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.