beats
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, beats sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 6abets, baste
- One letter away
- 20beads, beaks
What it means
- nouna United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b iy1 t s — 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.
- athletes
- beets
- cheats
- cleats
- competes
- completes
- deceits
- defeats
- deletes
- depletes
- eats
- elites
- feats
- fleets
- greets
- heartbeats
- heats
- meats
- meets
- obsoletes
- parakeets
- petites
- pleats
- receipts
Its letters, rearranged
6 other words use exactly these letters: abets, baste, beast, bates, betas, tabes.
One letter away
- beads
- beaks
- beams
- beans
- bears
- beets
- belts
- bents
- bests
- boats
- brats
- feats
- heats
- meats
- seats
- teats
- beaus
- blats
- neats
- peats
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.