study

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, study sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1dusty

One letter away

1studs

• nouna detailed critical inspection
• nounapplying the mind to learning and understanding a subject (especially by reading)
• nouna written document describing the findings of some individual or group

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s t ah1 d iy0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

8 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• bloody
• buddy
• muddy
• ruddy
• understudy
• cruddy
• cuddy
• duddy

One other word use exactly these letters: dusty.

The whole set on one page.

• studs

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts S18,988
• Starts ST2,597
• Ends Y
• 5 letters starting S

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.