rust
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, rust sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1ruts
- One letter away
- 12bust, dust
What it means
- adjectiveof the brown color of rust
- nouna red or brown oxide coating on iron or steel caused by the action of oxygen and moisture
- nouna plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r ah1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
30 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adjust
- bused
- bust
- crust
- discussed
- disgust
- distrust
- dust
- entrust
- fussed
- gust
- just
- lust
- mistrust
- must
- readjust
- robust
- sawdust
- thrust
- trust
- unjust
- antitrust
- bussed
- combust
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: ruts.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.