snort
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, snort sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 5short, snore
What it means
- nouna disrespectful laugh
- nouna cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
- verbindicate contempt by breathing noisily and forcefully through the nose
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s n ao1 r t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
45 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abort
- airport
- cavort
- consort
- contort
- court
- deport
- distort
- escort
- exhort
- extort
- fort
- import
- passport
- port
- purport
- quart
- report
- resort
- retort
- seaport
- short
- sort
- sport
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.