wasp

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, wasp sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

3paws, swap

One letter away

7gasp, rasp

• nounsocial or solitary hymenopterans typically having a slender body with the abdomen attached by a narrow stalk and having a formidable sting

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w aa1 s p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

3 other words use exactly these letters: paws, swap, waps.

The whole set on one page.

• gasp
• rasp
• warp
• wash
• wisp
• hasp
• wast

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts W3,694
• Starts WA1,007
• Ends P
• 4 letters starting W

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.