past
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, past sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3pats, spat
- One letter away
- 20cast, east
What it means
- adjectiveearlier than the present time; no longer current
- adjectiveof a person who has held and relinquished a position or office
- nounthe time that has elapsed
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ae1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
49 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aghast
- amassed
- blast
- broadcast
- bypassed
- cast
- caste
- classed
- downcast
- enthusiast
- fast
- forecast
- gassed
- glassed
- grassed
- harassed
- hast
- last
- massed
- mast
- newscast
- outcast
- outclassed
- outlast
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: pats, spat, taps.
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.