rouge

The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, rouge sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

2rogue, erugo

One letter away

4gouge, rough

• nounmakeup consisting of a pink or red powder applied to the cheeks
• verbredden by applying rouge to

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r uw1 zh — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

2 other words use exactly these letters: rogue, erugo.

The whole set on one page.

• gouge
• rough
• rouse
• route

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts R10,159
• Starts RO856
• Ends E
• 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.