bleat

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, bleat sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

—not in the pronouncing dictionary

Anagrams

2table, blate

One letter away

7bleak, cleat

• nounthe sound of sheep or goats (or any sound resembling this)
• verbtalk whiningly
• verbcry plaintively

Not one of the 50,962 words of ours that the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary covers, so this page prints no syllable count, no stress and no rhymes for it.

2 other words use exactly these letters: table, blate.

The whole set on one page.

• bleak
• cleat
• pleat
• blear
• bloat
• blest
• blent

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts B9,279
• Starts BL914
• Ends T
• 5 letters starting B

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.