saint
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, saint sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4satin, stain
- One letter away
- 7faint, paint
What it means
- nouna person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization
- nouna person of exceptional holiness
- nounmodel of excellence or perfection of a kind; one having no equal
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s ey1 n t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
10 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: satin, stain, antis, tains.
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.