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The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, but sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1tub
- One letter away
- 22bat, bet
What it means
- adverband nothing more
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ah1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
32 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- butt
- chestnut
- coconut
- cut
- donut
- doughnut
- glut
- gut
- haircut
- hut
- jut
- mutt
- nut
- putt
- rebut
- rut
- shut
- slut
- smut
- somewhat
- strut
- uncut
- undercut
- walnut
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: tub.
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.