boost
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, boost sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1boots
- One letter away
- 2boast, roost
What it means
- nounthe act of giving hope or support to someone
- nounan increase in cost
- nounthe act of giving a push
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b uw1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
12 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- deduced
- induced
- introduced
- loosed
- produced
- reduced
- reproduced
- roost
- seduced
- spruced
- overproduced
- reintroduced
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: boots.
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.