chest

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, chest 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

4cheat, chess

• nounthe part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates
• nounbox with a lid; used for storage; usually large and sturdy
• nounthe front of the trunk from the neck to the abdomen

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ch eh1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

90 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• abreast
• accessed
• acquiesced
• addressed
• arrest
• assessed
• attest
• bequest
• best
• blessed
• breast
• caressed
• coalesced
• compressed
• confessed
• crest
• depressed
• detest
• digest
• digressed
• dispossessed
• distressed
• divest
• dressed

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• cheat
• chess
• crest
• chert

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts C16,229
• Starts CH2,182
• Ends T
• 5 letters starting C

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.