spurt
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, spurt sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1turps
- One letter away
- 5sport, spurn
What it means
- nounthe occurrence of a sudden discharge (as of liquid)
- verbgush forth in a sudden stream or jet
- verbwet with a spurt of liquid
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s p er1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
37 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- alert
- assert
- avert
- blurt
- curt
- dessert
- dirt
- disconcert
- divert
- exert
- extrovert
- flirt
- hurt
- inert
- insert
- introvert
- invert
- overt
- pert
- revert
- shirt
- skirt
- squirt
- subvert
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: turps.
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.