rot
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, rot sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2tor, ort
- One letter away
- 23cot, dot
What it means
- nouna state of decay usually accompanied by an offensive odor
- noun(biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action
- noununacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r aa1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
69 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- afterthought
- allot
- apricot
- astronaut
- blot
- bought
- boycott
- caught
- clot
- cot
- crackpot
- dot
- earshot
- forgot
- got
- gunshot
- hot
- jackpot
- jot
- kilowatt
- knot
- lot
- not
- overshot
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: tor, ort.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% of the 972 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.