blunt
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, blunt sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 4blurt, brunt
What it means
- adjectivehaving a broad or rounded end
- adjectiveused of a knife or other blade; not sharp
- adjectivecharacterized by directness in manner or speech; without subtlety or evasion
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b l ah1 n t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
20 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- affront
- brunt
- confront
- forefront
- front
- grunt
- hunt
- punt
- shunt
- stunt
- waterfront
- battlefront
- bunt
- cunt
- lakefront
- manhunt
- oceanfront
- riverfront
- upfront
- lunt
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
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.