slave
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, slave sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 6salve, laves
- One letter away
- 7shave, slake
What it means
- nouna person who is owned by someone
- nounsomeone who works as hard as a slave
- nounsomeone entirely dominated by some influence or person
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s l ey1 v — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
32 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- behave
- brave
- cave
- concave
- crave
- engrave
- enslave
- forgave
- gave
- grave
- microwave
- misbehave
- pave
- rave
- save
- shave
- stave
- waive
- wave
- aftershave
- architrave
- autoclave
- conclave
- deprave
Its letters, rearranged
6 other words use exactly these letters: salve, laves, vales, selva, valse, veals.
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.