trap
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, trap sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4part, rapt
- One letter away
- 8crap, tray
What it means
- nouna device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned
- noundrain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas
- nounsomething (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t r ae1 p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
42 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bootstrap
- burlap
- cap
- catnap
- chap
- clap
- crap
- entrap
- flap
- gap
- handicap
- kidnap
- kneecap
- lap
- madcap
- map
- mishap
- nap
- overlap
- pap
- rap
- recap
- sap
- scrap
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: part, rapt, prat, tarp.
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.