vent
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, vent 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
- 17bent, cent
What it means
- nouna hole for the escape of gas or air
- nounexternal opening of urinary or genital system of a lower vertebrate
- nouna fissure in the earth's crust (or in the surface of some other planet) through which molten lava and gases erupt
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as v eh1 n t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
55 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- accent
- advent
- ascent
- assent
- augment
- bent
- cement
- cent
- circumvent
- congruent
- consent
- dent
- descent
- discontent
- dissent
- event
- extent
- ferment
- gent
- indent
- intent
- invent
- lament
- lent
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.