elite
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, elite sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 6elate, elide
What it means
- adjectiveselected as the best
- nouna group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ih0 l iy1 t — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
73 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- athlete
- beat
- beet
- bittersweet
- browbeat
- cheat
- cleat
- compete
- complete
- conceit
- concrete
- deceit
- defeat
- delete
- deplete
- discreet
- discrete
- eat
- excrete
- feat
- feet
- fleet
- greet
- heartbeat
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- elate
- elide
- elute
- evite
- flite
- blite
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.