burst
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, burst sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 8burnt, bursa
What it means
- nounthe act of exploding or bursting
- nounrapid simultaneous discharge of firearms
- nouna sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b er1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
26 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- cloudburst
- coerced
- conversed
- cursed
- disbursed
- dispersed
- first
- headfirst
- immersed
- interspersed
- nursed
- outburst
- pursed
- rehearsed
- reimbursed
- reversed
- thirst
- versed
- worst
- accursed
- hurst
- submersed
- unrehearsed
- wurst
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- burnt
- bursa
- hurst
- wurst
- buret
- burse
- curst
- durst
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.