pleat
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, pleat sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 6leapt, petal
- One letter away
- 4bleat, cleat
What it means
- nounany of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape
- verbpleat or gather into a ruffle
- verbfold into pleats
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p l iy1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
73 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- athlete
- beat
- beet
- bittersweet
- browbeat
- cheat
- cleat
- compete
- complete
- conceit
- concrete
- deceit
- defeat
- delete
- deplete
- discreet
- discrete
- eat
- elite
- excrete
- feat
- feet
- fleet
- greet
Its letters, rearranged
6 other words use exactly these letters: leapt, petal, plate, lepta, palet, tepal.
One letter away
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.