flat
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, flat 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
- 16feat, flag
What it means
- adjectivehaving a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another
- adjectivehaving a relatively broad surface in relation to depth or thickness
- adjectivenot modified or restricted by reservations
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f l ae1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
53 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- acrobat
- aristocrat
- at
- autocrat
- bat
- bobcat
- brat
- bureaucrat
- cat
- caveat
- chat
- democrat
- diplomat
- fat
- format
- gnat
- habitat
- hat
- mat
- matte
- pat
- rat
- sat
- slat
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.