mated
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, mated sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1tamed
- One letter away
- 19dated, fated
What it means
- adjectivemated sexually
- adjectiveoccurring in pairs or as a pair
- adjectiveof or relating to a marriage partner
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m ey1 t ih0 d — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
340 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abated
- abbreviated
- abdicated
- accelerated
- accentuated
- acclimated
- accommodated
- accumulated
- activated
- adulterated
- advocated
- affiliated
- aggravated
- aggregated
- agitated
- alienated
- alleviated
- allocated
- alternated
- amalgamated
- amputated
- animated
- annihilated
- anticipated
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: tamed.
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.