coast
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, coast sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4coats, tacos
- One letter away
- 6boast, roast
What it means
- nounthe shore of a sea or ocean
- nouna slope down which sleds may coast
- nounthe area within view
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k ow1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
29 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- almost
- boast
- diagnosed
- engrossed
- foremost
- ghost
- grossed
- host
- innermost
- most
- outermost
- outpost
- overdosed
- post
- riposte
- roast
- signpost
- toast
- uppermost
- utmost
- cohost
- goalpost
- guidepost
- lamppost
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: coats, tacos, ascot, costa.
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.