curt
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, curt 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
- 13cart, cult
What it means
- adjectivemarked by rude or peremptory shortness
- adjectivebrief and to the point; effectively cut short
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k er1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
37 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- alert
- assert
- avert
- blurt
- dessert
- dirt
- disconcert
- divert
- exert
- extrovert
- flirt
- hurt
- inert
- insert
- introvert
- invert
- overt
- pert
- revert
- shirt
- skirt
- spurt
- squirt
- subvert
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
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.