up
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 2 letters. In the size-ranked list, up sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 296 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 6un, us
What it means
- adjectivebeing or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level
- adjectiveout of bed
- adjectivegetting higher or more vigorous
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah1 p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
37 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- buttercup
- checkup
- cup
- holdup
- letup
- makeup
- pickup
- pup
- sup
- teacup
- backup
- blowup
- breakup
- buildup
- cleanup
- eggcup
- hookup
- lineup
- linkup
- lockup
- markup
- pileup
- roundup
- setup
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 2 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 6% of the 96 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.