point
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, point sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3pinto, piton
- One letter away
- 4joint, paint
What it means
- nouna geometric element that has position but no extension
- nounthe precise location of something; a spatially limited location
- nouna brief version of the essential meaning of something
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p oy1 n t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
18 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- anoint
- appoint
- checkpoint
- disappoint
- disjoint
- joint
- pinpoint
- standpoint
- viewpoint
- counterpoint
- endpoint
- gunpoint
- midpoint
- needlepoint
- reappoint
- drypoint
- knifepoint
- pointe
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: pinto, piton, pinot.
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.