erect
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, erect sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 1terce
- One letter away
- 3eject, elect
What it means
- adjectiveupright in position or posture
- adjectiveof sexual organs; stiff and rigid
- verbconstruct, build, or erect
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ih0 r eh1 k t — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
65 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- affect
- aftereffect
- architect
- aspect
- checked
- collect
- connect
- correct
- decked
- deflect
- detect
- dialect
- direct
- disconnect
- disinfect
- disrespect
- dissect
- effect
- eject
- elect
- expect
- incorrect
- indirect
- infect
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: terce.
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.