whip
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, whip sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 11chip, ship
What it means
- nounan instrument with a handle and a flexible lash that is used for whipping
- nouna legislator appointed by the party to enforce discipline
- nouna dessert made of sugar and stiffly beaten egg whites or cream and usually flavored with fruit
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w ih1 p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
95 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- airstrip
- apprenticeship
- authorship
- battleship
- blip
- censorship
- championship
- chip
- citizenship
- clip
- companionship
- courtship
- dictatorship
- dip
- drip
- editorship
- equip
- fellowship
- fingertip
- flagship
- flip
- grip
- hip
- kinship
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.