stop
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, stop sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 5opts, post
- One letter away
- 9shop, slop
What it means
- nounthe event of something ending
- nounthe act of stopping something
- nouna brief stay in the course of a journey
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s t aa1 p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
50 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bellhop
- blacktop
- bookshop
- bop
- chop
- cop
- crop
- desktop
- drop
- eavesdrop
- flop
- hop
- lollipop
- lop
- mop
- nonstop
- plop
- pop
- prop
- raindrop
- shop
- slop
- sop
- swap
Its letters, rearranged
5 other words use exactly these letters: opts, post, pots, spot, tops.
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.