yeast
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, yeast sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 3beast, feast
What it means
- nouna commercial leavening agent containing yeast cells; used to raise the dough in making bread and for fermenting beer or whiskey
- nounany of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as y iy1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
19 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- beast
- ceased
- deceased
- decreased
- east
- feast
- fleeced
- greased
- increased
- leased
- least
- northeast
- pieced
- policed
- priest
- released
- southeast
- trendiest
- toniest
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.