bet
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, bet sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 24bat, bed
What it means
- nounthe money risked on a gamble
- nounthe act of gambling
- verbmaintain with or as if with a bet
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b eh1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
97 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abet
- alphabet
- asset
- barrette
- bayonet
- beset
- brunette
- cadet
- cassette
- cigarette
- clarinet
- cornet
- debt
- duet
- epithet
- forget
- fret
- gazette
- get
- inlet
- jet
- kitchenette
- let
- met
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.