first
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, first sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2rifts, frits
- One letter away
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
- adjectivepreceding all others in time or space or degree
- adjectivehighest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections
- adjectiveserving to begin
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f er1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
26 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- burst
- cloudburst
- coerced
- conversed
- cursed
- disbursed
- dispersed
- headfirst
- immersed
- interspersed
- nursed
- outburst
- pursed
- rehearsed
- reimbursed
- reversed
- thirst
- versed
- worst
- accursed
- hurst
- submersed
- unrehearsed
- wurst
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: rifts, frits.
One letter away
No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.
Same length, one position changed.
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.