host
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, host sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4shot, hots
- One letter away
- 13cost, dost
What it means
- nouna person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there
- nouna vast multitude
- nounan animal or plant that nourishes and supports a parasite; it does not benefit and is often harmed by the association
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh 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
- ghost
- grossed
- innermost
- most
- outermost
- outpost
- overdosed
- post
- riposte
- roast
- signpost
- toast
- uppermost
- utmost
- cohost
- goalpost
- guidepost
- lamppost
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: shot, hots, tosh, soth.
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.