use
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, use sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1sue
- One letter away
- 2uke, ose
What it means
- nounthe act of using
- nounwhat something is used for
- nouna particular service
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as y 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
One other word use exactly these letters: sue.
One letter away
- uke
- ose
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.