type
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, type sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 10tape, hype
What it means
- nouna subdivision of a particular kind of thing
- nouna person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
- noun(biology) the taxonomic group whose characteristics are used to define the next higher taxon
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ay1 p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
26 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- gripe
- pipe
- prototype
- ripe
- snipe
- stereotype
- stripe
- swipe
- tripe
- wipe
- archetype
- bagpipe
- blowpipe
- genotype
- hype
- overripe
- phenotype
- pinstripe
- subtype
- tailpipe
- tintype
- cripe
- ferrotype
- monotype
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
- tape
- hype
- tyke
- typo
- tyre
- tope
- tyne
- typy
- tyee
- typp
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.