ups
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, ups sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2pus, sup
- One letter away
- 4ops, uns
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and ups is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is up — being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah1 p s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
21 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- buttercups
- checkups
- cups
- holdups
- pickups
- pups
- backups
- buildups
- cleanups
- eggcups
- hookups
- lineups
- linkups
- markups
- setups
- shakeups
- startups
- coverups
- grownups
- hangups
- pushups
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: pus, sup.
One letter away
- ops
- uns
- uts
- upo
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 972 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.