vying
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, vying sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 5dying, lying
What it means
Open English WordNet has no entry for vying and no lemma one regular ending away from it. It is in the word list and in the size-ranked tiers, which is all this site knows about it. No definition is invented here.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as v ay1 ih0 ng — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
85 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- amplifying
- applying
- belying
- buying
- certifying
- clarifying
- classifying
- complying
- crying
- decrying
- defying
- denying
- disqualifying
- diversifying
- drying
- dyeing
- dying
- electrifying
- exemplifying
- eyeing
- falsifying
- flying
- fortifying
- frying
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.