hurt

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, hurt sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

2ruth, thru

One letter away

5curt, hart

• adjectivesuffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle
• adjectivedamaged; used of inanimate objects or their value
• nounany physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh er1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

37 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• alert
• assert
• avert
• blurt
• curt
• dessert
• dirt
• disconcert
• divert
• exert
• extrovert
• flirt
• inert
• insert
• introvert
• invert
• overt
• pert
• revert
• shirt
• skirt
• spurt
• squirt
• subvert

2 other words use exactly these letters: ruth, thru.

• curt
• hart
• hunt
• hurl
• yurt

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts H6,303
• Starts HU434
• Ends T
• 4 letters starting H

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.