tooth
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, tooth 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
- 4booth, toots
What it means
- nounhard bonelike structures in the jaws of vertebrates; used for biting and chewing or for attack and defense
- nounsomething resembling the tooth of an animal
- nountoothlike structure in invertebrates found in the mouth or alimentary canal or on a shell
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t uw1 th — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
9 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.