ruby

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, ruby sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1bury

One letter away

3rubs, rube

• adjectiveof a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies
• nouna transparent piece of ruby that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
• nouna transparent deep red variety of corundum; used as a gemstone and in lasers

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r uw1 b iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

2 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• booby
• looby

One other word use exactly these letters: bury.

The whole set on one page.

• rubs
• rube
• ruly

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts R10,159
• Starts RU514
• Ends Y
• 4 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.