jests
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, jests 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
- 11bests, nests
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and jests is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is jest — a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as jh eh1 s t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
28 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- arrests
- attests
- bequests
- breasts
- chests
- conquests
- crests
- digests
- divests
- guests
- headrests
- infests
- invests
- manifests
- molests
- nests
- pests
- protests
- quests
- requests
- rests
- suggests
- tests
- vests
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
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.