adept
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, adept sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 2taped, pated
- One letter away
- 2adapt, adopt
What it means
- adjectivehaving or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
- nounsomeone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 d eh1 p t — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
19 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- accept
- crept
- except
- inept
- intercept
- kept
- leaped
- leapt
- overslept
- overstepped
- sidestepped
- slept
- stepped
- swept
- wept
- precept
- prepped
- sept
- windswept
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: taped, pated.
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.