elect
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, elect sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 2eject, erect
What it means
- adjectiveselected as the best
- adjectiveelected but not yet installed in office
- nounan exclusive group of people
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ih0 l eh1 k t — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
65 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- affect
- aftereffect
- architect
- aspect
- checked
- collect
- connect
- correct
- decked
- deflect
- detect
- dialect
- direct
- disconnect
- disinfect
- disrespect
- dissect
- effect
- eject
- erect
- expect
- incorrect
- indirect
- infect
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.