angst

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, angst sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

3gnats, tangs

One letter away

0none in this dictionary

• nounan acute but unspecific feeling of anxiety; usually reserved for philosophical anxiety about the world or about personal freedom

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as aa1 ng k s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

3 other words use exactly these letters: gnats, tangs, stang.

The whole set on one page.

No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.

Same length, one position changed.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AN1,965
• Ends T
• 5 letters starting A

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.