swish

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

3swash, swiss

• adjectiveelegant and fashionable
• nouna brushing or rustling sound
• verbmove with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s w ih1 sh — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• catfish
• dish
• fish
• goldfish
• jellyfish
• shellfish
• starfish
• swordfish
• wish
• angelfish
• crawfish
• cuttlefish
• dogfish
• flatfish
• lungfish
• redfish
• sailfish
• sunfish
• whitefish
• dealfish
• goosefish
• jewfish
• needlefish
• pipefish

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• swash
• swiss
• swith

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts S18,988
• Starts SW519
• Ends H
• 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.