cost
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, cost sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2cots, scot
- One letter away
- 17cast, coat
What it means
- nounthe total spent for goods or services including money and time and labor
- nounthe property of having material worth (often indicated by the amount of money something would bring if sold)
- nounvalue measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k aa1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
3 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bossed
- dost
- prost
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: cots, scot.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.