snip
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, snip sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3nips, pins
- One letter away
- 6ship, skip
What it means
- nouna small piece of anything (especially a piece that has been snipped off)
- nounthe act of clipping or snipping
- verbsever or remove by pinching or snipping
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s n ih1 p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
95 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- airstrip
- apprenticeship
- authorship
- battleship
- blip
- censorship
- championship
- chip
- citizenship
- clip
- companionship
- courtship
- dictatorship
- dip
- drip
- editorship
- equip
- fellowship
- fingertip
- flagship
- flip
- grip
- hip
- kinship
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: nips, pins, spin.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.