rut
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, rut sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 18but, cut
What it means
- nouna groove or furrow (especially one in soft earth caused by wheels)
- nouna settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape
- nounapplies to nonhuman mammals: a state or period of heightened sexual arousal and activity
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r ah1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
32 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- but
- butt
- chestnut
- coconut
- cut
- donut
- doughnut
- glut
- gut
- haircut
- hut
- jut
- mutt
- nut
- putt
- rebut
- shut
- slut
- smut
- somewhat
- strut
- uncut
- undercut
- walnut
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 3 letters.
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.