urge
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, urge sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1grue
- One letter away
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
- nounan instinctive motive
- nouna strong restless desire
- verbforce or impel in an indicated direction
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as er1 jh — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
15 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: grue.
One letter away
No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.
Same length, one position changed.
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.