spat
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, spat sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3past, pats
- One letter away
- 15seat, slat
What it means
- nouna quarrel about petty points
- nouna cloth covering (a legging) that covers the instep and ankles
- nouna young oyster or other bivalve
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s p ae1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
53 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- acrobat
- aristocrat
- at
- autocrat
- bat
- bobcat
- brat
- bureaucrat
- cat
- caveat
- chat
- democrat
- diplomat
- fat
- flat
- format
- gnat
- habitat
- hat
- mat
- matte
- pat
- rat
- sat
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: past, pats, taps.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.