state
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, state sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4taste, teats
- One letter away
- 11skate, slate
What it means
- nounthe territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation
- nounthe way something is with respect to its main attributes
- nounthe group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s t ey1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
486 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abate
- abbreviate
- abdicate
- accelerate
- acclimate
- accommodate
- accumulate
- activate
- adulterate
- affiliate
- aggravate
- agitate
- alienate
- alleviate
- allocate
- amalgamate
- amputate
- annihilate
- annotate
- anticipate
- appreciate
- arbitrate
- articulate
- asphyxiate
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: taste, teats, testa, tates.
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.