stab
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, stab sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3bats, tabs
- One letter away
- 10scab, slab
What it means
- nouna sudden sharp feeling
- nouna strong blow with a knife or other sharp pointed instrument
- nouninformal words for any attempt or effort
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s t ae1 b — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
18 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: bats, tabs, bast.
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.