moot
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, moot sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1toom
- One letter away
- 18boot, foot
What it means
- adjectiveof no legal significance (as having been previously decided)
- adjectiveopen to argument or debate
- nouna hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m uw1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
78 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- absolute
- acute
- astute
- attribute
- boot
- brute
- butte
- chute
- commute
- compute
- constitute
- cute
- destitute
- dilute
- dispute
- disrepute
- electrocute
- execute
- flute
- fruit
- grapefruit
- hoot
- institute
- jute
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: toom.
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.