cast
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, cast sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3acts, cats
- One letter away
- 20cant, cart
What it means
- nounthe actors in a play
- nouncontainer into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens
- nounthe distinctive form in which a thing is made
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k ae1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
49 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aghast
- amassed
- blast
- broadcast
- bypassed
- caste
- classed
- downcast
- enthusiast
- fast
- forecast
- gassed
- glassed
- grassed
- harassed
- hast
- last
- massed
- mast
- newscast
- outcast
- outclassed
- outlast
- overcast
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: acts, cats, scat.
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.