apt
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, apt sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2pat, tap
- One letter away
- 9act, ant
What it means
- adjective(usually followed by ‘to’) naturally disposed toward
- adjectiveat risk of or subject to experiencing something usually unpleasant
- adjectivementally quick and resourceful
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 p t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
27 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adapt
- capped
- clapped
- entrapped
- flapped
- handicapped
- kidnapped
- lapped
- mapped
- napped
- overlapped
- rapped
- rapt
- recapped
- sapped
- scrapped
- slapped
- snapped
- strapped
- tapped
- trapped
- unwrapped
- wrapped
- untapped
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: pat, tap.
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.