taut
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, taut sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 7tact, tart
What it means
- adjectivepulled or drawn tight
- adjectivesubjected to great tension; stretched tight
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ao1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
28 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- brought
- cosmonaut
- distraught
- forethought
- fought
- fraught
- juggernaut
- naught
- onslaught
- ought
- overwrought
- snot
- sought
- taught
- thought
- wrought
- argonaut
- aught
- begot
- bot
- dreadnought
- methought
- overbought
- reshot
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
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.