fret
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, fret sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2reft, tref
- One letter away
- 5feet, free
What it means
- nounagitation resulting from active worry
- nouna spot that has been worn away by abrasion or erosion
- nounan ornamental pattern consisting of repeated vertical and horizontal lines (often in relief)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f r eh1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
97 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abet
- alphabet
- asset
- barrette
- bayonet
- beset
- bet
- brunette
- cadet
- cassette
- cigarette
- clarinet
- cornet
- debt
- duet
- epithet
- forget
- gazette
- get
- inlet
- jet
- kitchenette
- let
- met
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: reft, tref.
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.