cyst
The filled squares are the 0 vowels — 0 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, cyst 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
- 4cast, cost
What it means
- nouna closed sac that develops abnormally in some body structure
- nouna small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s ih1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
43 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- anarchist
- assist
- blacklist
- coexist
- consist
- desist
- dismissed
- enlist
- exist
- fist
- gist
- hissed
- insist
- kissed
- list
- missed
- mist
- persist
- reminisced
- resist
- subsist
- twist
- wrist
- anthologist
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.