tab
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, tab sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1bat
- One letter away
- 25cab, dab
What it means
- nounthe bill in a restaurant
- nounsensationalist journalism
- nounthe key on a typewriter or a word processor that causes a tabulation
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as 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
One other word use exactly these letters: bat.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 3% of the 972 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.