gist
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, gist sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1gits
- One letter away
- 13fist, gift
What it means
- nounthe central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work
- nounthe choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as jh ih1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
43 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- anarchist
- assist
- blacklist
- coexist
- consist
- cyst
- desist
- dismissed
- enlist
- exist
- fist
- hissed
- insist
- kissed
- list
- missed
- mist
- persist
- reminisced
- resist
- subsist
- twist
- wrist
- anthologist
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: gits.
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.