silly
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, silly sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2slily, yills
- One letter away
- 11filly, hilly
What it means
- adjectiveludicrous, foolish
- adjectivelacking seriousness; given to frivolity
- adjectiveinspiring scornful pity
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s ih1 l iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
18 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- chili
- chilly
- filly
- frilly
- hilly
- involuntarily
- lily
- really
- billie
- billy
- chile
- dilly
- fusilli
- gillie
- rockabilly
- villi
- willy
- gilly
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: slily, yills.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.