whet
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, whet sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1thew
- One letter away
- 8what, when
What it means
- verbmake keen or more acute
- verbsharpen by rubbing, as on a whetstone
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w eh1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
97 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abet
- alphabet
- asset
- barrette
- bayonet
- beset
- bet
- brunette
- cadet
- cassette
- cigarette
- clarinet
- cornet
- debt
- duet
- epithet
- forget
- fret
- gazette
- get
- inlet
- jet
- kitchenette
- let
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: thew.
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.