ghost
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, ghost sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 2ghast, glost
What it means
- nouna mental representation of some haunting experience
- nouna writer who gives the credit of authorship to someone else
- nounthe visible disembodied soul of a dead person
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g ow1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
29 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- almost
- boast
- coast
- diagnosed
- engrossed
- foremost
- grossed
- host
- innermost
- most
- outermost
- outpost
- overdosed
- post
- riposte
- roast
- signpost
- toast
- uppermost
- utmost
- cohost
- goalpost
- guidepost
- lamppost
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- ghast
- glost
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.