sleep
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, sleep sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3peels, speel
- One letter away
- 6sheep, sleek
What it means
- nouna natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- nouna torpid state resembling deep sleep
- nouna period of time spent sleeping
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s l iy1 p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
21 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- asleep
- cheap
- creep
- deep
- heap
- keep
- leap
- oversleep
- peep
- reap
- seep
- sheep
- steep
- sweep
- upkeep
- weep
- beep
- bleep
- jeep
- veep
- bopeep
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: peels, speel, peles.
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.