east
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, east sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 7eats, seat
- One letter away
- 14cast, ease
What it means
- adjectivesituated in or facing or moving toward the east
- nounthe cardinal compass point that is at 90 degrees
- nounthe direction corresponding to the eastward cardinal compass point
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as iy1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
19 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- beast
- ceased
- deceased
- decreased
- feast
- fleeced
- greased
- increased
- leased
- least
- northeast
- pieced
- policed
- priest
- released
- southeast
- trendiest
- yeast
- toniest
Its letters, rearranged
7 other words use exactly these letters: eats, seat, teas, etas, sate, seta, ates.
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.