knot
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, knot sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 5knit, knob
What it means
- nouna tight cluster of people or things
- nounany of various fastenings formed by looping and tying a rope (or cord) upon itself or to another rope or to another object
- nouna hard cross-grained round piece of wood in a board where a branch emerged
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as n aa1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
69 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- afterthought
- allot
- apricot
- astronaut
- blot
- bought
- boycott
- caught
- clot
- cot
- crackpot
- dot
- earshot
- forgot
- got
- gunshot
- hot
- jackpot
- jot
- kilowatt
- lot
- not
- overshot
- plot
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
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.