diet

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, diet sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

4edit, tide

One letter away

8died, dies

• nouna prescribed selection of foods
• nouna legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan)
• nounthe usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal)

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as d ay1 ah0 t — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• disquiet
• quiet
• riot
• guyot

4 other words use exactly these letters: edit, tide, tied, dite.

The whole set on one page.

• died
• dies
• dirt
• duet
• dint
• deet
• diel
• dipt

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts D10,149
• Starts DI3,225
• Ends T
• 4 letters starting D

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.