zip
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, zip sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 15dip, hip
What it means
- nouna quantity of no importance; thing (object:), singular, negative pronoun; pronoun, thing, singular; quantifier: negative existential
- nounforceful exertion
- nouna fastener for locking together two toothed edges by means of a sliding tab
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as z 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 3 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% 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.