gloat
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, gloat 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
- 6float, bloat
What it means
- nounmalicious satisfaction
- verbdwell on with satisfaction
- verbgaze at or think about something with great self-satisfaction, gratification, or joy
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g l ow1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
64 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- afloat
- anecdote
- antidote
- boat
- coat
- connote
- cutthroat
- demote
- denote
- devote
- dote
- float
- footnote
- goat
- houseboat
- keynote
- lifeboat
- misquote
- moat
- note
- overcoat
- petticoat
- promote
- quote
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- float
- bloat
- groat
- gloam
- glout
- 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.