scant
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, scant sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2cants, canst
- One letter away
- 5scans, scent
What it means
- adjectiveless than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- verbwork hastily or carelessly; deal with inadequately and superficially
- verblimit in quality or quantity
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s k ae1 n t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
22 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ant
- aunt
- cant
- chant
- eggplant
- enchant
- grant
- implant
- pant
- plant
- rant
- recant
- slant
- supplant
- transplant
- brant
- confidante
- decant
- levant
- quant
- replant
- incant
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: cants, canst.
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.