snipe
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, snipe sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4penis, pines
- One letter away
- 5snide, snips
What it means
- nounOld or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks
- nouna gunshot from a concealed location
- verbhunt or shoot snipe
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s n ay1 p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
26 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- gripe
- pipe
- prototype
- ripe
- stereotype
- stripe
- swipe
- tripe
- type
- wipe
- archetype
- bagpipe
- blowpipe
- genotype
- hype
- overripe
- phenotype
- pinstripe
- subtype
- tailpipe
- tintype
- cripe
- ferrotype
- monotype
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: penis, pines, spine, peins.
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.