act
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, act sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1cat
- One letter away
- 8ace, ant
What it means
- nouna legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body
- nounsomething that people do or cause to happen
- nouna subdivision of a play or opera or ballet
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 k t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
58 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abstract
- artifact
- attacked
- attract
- backed
- backtracked
- blacked
- contact
- contract
- counteract
- counterattacked
- cracked
- detract
- distract
- enact
- exact
- extract
- fact
- hacked
- hijacked
- impact
- inexact
- intact
- interact
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: cat.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 972 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.