sos
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, sos sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 3stress on the 3th
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 18dos, kos
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and sos is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is so — the syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as eh2 ow2 eh1 s — 3 syllables, the stress on syllable 3.
71 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abscess
- access
- acquiesce
- address
- assess
- bless
- carefulness
- caress
- chess
- coalesce
- confess
- convalesce
- depress
- digress
- dispossess
- distress
- dress
- excess
- express
- faithfulness
- finesse
- guess
- impress
- less
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% of the 972 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.