ought
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, ought sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1tough
- One letter away
- 1aught
What it means
Open English WordNet has no entry for ought and no lemma one regular ending away from it. It is in the word list and in the size-ranked tiers, which is all this site knows about it. No definition is invented here.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ao1 t — 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.
- brought
- cosmonaut
- distraught
- forethought
- fought
- fraught
- juggernaut
- naught
- onslaught
- overwrought
- snot
- sought
- taught
- taut
- thought
- wrought
- argonaut
- aught
- begot
- bot
- dreadnought
- methought
- overbought
- reshot
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: tough.
One letter away
- aught
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.