bust
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, bust sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3stub, tubs
- One letter away
- 15best, bush
What it means
- adjectivelacking funds
- nouna complete failure
- nounthe chest of a woman
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ah1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
30 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adjust
- bused
- crust
- discussed
- disgust
- distrust
- dust
- entrust
- fussed
- gust
- just
- lust
- mistrust
- must
- readjust
- robust
- rust
- sawdust
- thrust
- trust
- unjust
- antitrust
- bussed
- combust
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: stub, tubs, buts.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.