eater
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, eater sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1arete
- One letter away
- 14cater, eager
What it means
- nounsomeone who consumes food for nourishment
- nounany green goods that are good to eat
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as iy1 t er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
26 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- anteater
- beater
- centimeter
- heater
- liter
- meter
- millimeter
- neater
- peter
- sweeter
- teeter
- ammeter
- cheater
- deciliter
- dieter
- gravimeter
- milliliter
- nanometer
- praetor
- repeater
- skeeter
- beefeater
- metre
- seater
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: arete.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.