fact
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, fact sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 5face, fast
What it means
- nouna piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred
- nouna statement or assertion of verified information about something that is the case or has happened
- nounan event known to have happened or something known to have existed
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f ae1 k t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
58 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abstract
- act
- artifact
- attacked
- attract
- backed
- backtracked
- blacked
- contact
- contract
- counteract
- counterattacked
- cracked
- detract
- distract
- enact
- exact
- extract
- hacked
- hijacked
- impact
- inexact
- intact
- interact
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.