byte
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, byte sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 7bite, bate
What it means
- nouna sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ay1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
170 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- airtight
- alight
- apartheid
- appetite
- bite
- blight
- bright
- bullfight
- cite
- contrite
- copyright
- daylight
- delight
- despite
- downright
- dynamite
- erudite
- excite
- expedite
- extradite
- eyesight
- fight
- finite
- flashlight
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
- bite
- bate
- byre
- bute
- kyte
- hyte
- wyte
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.