wrist
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, wrist sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1writs
- One letter away
- 4waist, wrest
What it means
- nouna joint between the distal end of the radius and the proximal row of carpal bones
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r ih1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
43 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- anarchist
- assist
- blacklist
- coexist
- consist
- cyst
- desist
- dismissed
- enlist
- exist
- fist
- gist
- hissed
- insist
- kissed
- list
- missed
- mist
- persist
- reminisced
- resist
- subsist
- twist
- anthologist
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: writs.
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.