swoop
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, swoop sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1woops
- One letter away
- 5scoop, snoop
What it means
- noun(music) rapid sliding up or down the musical scale
- nouna very rapid raid
- nouna swift descent through the air
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s w uw1 p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
28 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- coop
- droop
- dupe
- group
- hoop
- loop
- nincompoop
- poop
- recoup
- scoop
- snoop
- soup
- stoop
- subgroup
- troop
- troupe
- whoop
- coupe
- croup
- drupe
- goop
- intergroup
- paratroop
- regroup
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: woops.
One letter away
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.