eat
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, eat sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4ate, tea
- One letter away
- 19bat, cat
What it means
- verbtake in solid food
- verbeat a meal; take a meal
- verbtake in food; used of animals only
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as iy1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
73 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- athlete
- beat
- beet
- bittersweet
- browbeat
- cheat
- cleat
- compete
- complete
- conceit
- concrete
- deceit
- defeat
- delete
- deplete
- discreet
- discrete
- elite
- excrete
- feat
- feet
- fleet
- greet
- heartbeat
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: ate, tea, eta, tae.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% of the 972 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.