smelt
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, smelt sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1melts
- One letter away
- 4smell, smalt
What it means
- nounsmall cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water
- nounsmall trout-like silvery marine or freshwater food fishes of cold northern waters
- verbextract (metals) by heating
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s m eh1 l t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
13 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: melts.
One letter away
- smell
- smalt
- smolt
- spelt
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.