sieve

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

3siege, nieve

• nouna strainer for separating lumps from powdered material or grading particles
• verbexamine in order to test suitability
• verbcheck and sort carefully

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s ih1 v — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• associative
• forgive
• give
• outlive
• relive
• constitutive
• corroborative
• transformative
• determinative
• misgive

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• siege
• nieve
• lieve

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts S18,988
• Starts SI945
• Ends E
• 5 letters starting S

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.