burnt

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, burnt sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1brunt

One letter away

3burns, burst

• adjectiveruined by overcooking
• adjectivetreated by heating to a high temperature but below the melting or fusing point
• adjectivedestroyed or badly damaged by fire

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b er1 n t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

1 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• learnt

One other word use exactly these letters: brunt.

The whole set on one page.

• burns
• burst
• buret

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts B9,279
• Starts BU1,085
• 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.