ousts

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

—not in the pronouncing dictionary

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

8busts, dusts

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and ousts is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is oust — remove from a position or office. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

Not one of the 50,962 words of ours that the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary covers, so this page prints no syllable count, no stress and no rhymes for it.

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• busts
• dusts
• gusts
• lusts
• musts
• rusts
• justs
• oasts

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts O5,843
• Starts OU1,342
• Ends S
• 5 letters starting O

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.