quite
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, quite sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1quiet
- One letter away
- 5quits, quote
What it means
- adverbto a degree (not used with a negative)
- adverbto the greatest extent; completely
- adverbof an unusually noticeable or exceptional or remarkable kind (not used with a negative)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k w ay1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
170 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- airtight
- alight
- apartheid
- appetite
- bite
- blight
- bright
- bullfight
- byte
- cite
- contrite
- copyright
- daylight
- delight
- despite
- downright
- dynamite
- erudite
- excite
- expedite
- extradite
- eyesight
- fight
- finite
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: quiet.
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.