vie
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, vie sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 13die, lie
What it means
- verbcompete for something; engage in a contest; measure oneself against others
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as v ay1 — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
176 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- alibi
- alkali
- amplify
- apply
- awry
- aye
- beautify
- belie
- butterfly
- buy
- by
- bye
- certify
- chi
- clarify
- classify
- comply
- crucify
- cry
- decry
- defy
- deify
- deny
- die
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
One letter away
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.