abate
The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, abate sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 3abase, agate
What it means
- verbmake less active or intense
- verbbecome less in amount or intensity
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ah0 b ey1 t — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
486 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abbreviate
- abdicate
- accelerate
- acclimate
- accommodate
- accumulate
- activate
- adulterate
- affiliate
- aggravate
- agitate
- alienate
- alleviate
- allocate
- amalgamate
- amputate
- annihilate
- annotate
- anticipate
- appreciate
- arbitrate
- articulate
- asphyxiate
- assassinate
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- abase
- agate
- alate
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.