mount

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, mount sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

2muton, notum

One letter away

4count, fount

• nouna lightweight horse kept for riding only
• nounthe act of climbing something
• nouna land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m aw1 n t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• account
• amount
• count
• discount
• paramount
• recount
• surmount
• tantamount
• miscount
• undercount
• catamount

2 other words use exactly these letters: muton, notum.

• count
• fount
• mound
• moult

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts M9,628
• Starts MO1,707
• Ends T
• 5 letters starting M

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.