spree
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, spree sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 5peers, speer
- One letter away
- 4scree, sprue
What it means
- nouna brief indulgence of your impulses
- verbengage without restraint in an activity and indulge, as when shopping
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s p r iy1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
293 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ability
- absentee
- actuality
- actuary
- addressee
- adversity
- agree
- anarchy
- apologetically
- apology
- apostrophe
- appointee
- be
- bee
- bourgeoisie
- bumblebee
- carefree
- catchy
- company
- compatibility
- culturally
- daintily
- debris
- decree
Its letters, rearranged
5 other words use exactly these letters: peers, speer, perse, prees, prese.
One letter away
- scree
- sprue
- saree
- siree
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.