tribe
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, tribe sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1biter
- One letter away
- 6bribe, tripe
What it means
- nouna social division of (usually preliterate) people
- nouna federation (as of American Indians)
- noun(biology) a taxonomic category between a genus and a subfamily
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t r ay1 b — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
16 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ascribe
- bribe
- describe
- diatribe
- gibe
- inscribe
- jibe
- prescribe
- scribe
- subscribe
- transcribe
- circumscribe
- imbibe
- oversubscribe
- proscribe
- vibe
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: biter.
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.