truce
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, truce sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 5cuter, cruet
- One letter away
- 3trace, truck
What it means
- nouna state of peace agreed to between opponents so they can discuss peace terms
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t r uw1 s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
36 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abstruse
- abuse
- caboose
- coos
- deduce
- diffuse
- disuse
- excuse
- goose
- induce
- introduce
- juice
- loose
- moose
- mousse
- noose
- obtuse
- produce
- profuse
- recluse
- reduce
- reproduce
- reuse
- seduce
Its letters, rearranged
5 other words use exactly these letters: cuter, cruet, eruct, curet, recut.
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.