solve
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, solve sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2loves, voles
- One letter away
- 2salve, soave
What it means
- verbfind the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of
- verbfind the solution
- verbsettle, as of a debt
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s aa1 l v — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
7 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- absolve
- dissolve
- evolve
- involve
- resolve
- revolve
- devolve
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: loves, voles.
One letter away
- salve
- soave
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.