count

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, count 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

3court, fount

• nounthe total number counted
• nounthe act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order
• nouna nobleman (in various countries) having rank equal to a British earl

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k aw1 n t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• account
• amount
• discount
• mount
• paramount
• recount
• surmount
• tantamount
• miscount
• undercount
• catamount

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

• court
• fount
• mount

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts C16,229
• Starts CO6,432
• 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.