roost
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, roost sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4roots, torso
- One letter away
- 4boost, roast
What it means
- nouna shelter with perches for fowl or other birds
- nouna perch on which domestic fowl rest or sleep
- verbsit, as on a branch
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r uw1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
12 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- boost
- deduced
- induced
- introduced
- loosed
- produced
- reduced
- reproduced
- seduced
- spruced
- overproduced
- reintroduced
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: roots, torso, rotos, toros.
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.