flute
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, flute sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 6fluke, flume
What it means
- nouna high-pitched woodwind instrument; a slender tube closed at one end with finger holes on one end and an opening near the closed end across which the breath is blown
- nouna tall narrow wineglass
- nouna groove or furrow in cloth etc. (particularly a shallow concave groove on the shaft of a column)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as f l uw1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
78 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- absolute
- acute
- astute
- attribute
- boot
- brute
- butte
- chute
- commute
- compute
- constitute
- cute
- destitute
- dilute
- dispute
- disrepute
- electrocute
- execute
- fruit
- grapefruit
- hoot
- institute
- jute
- lawsuit
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- fluke
- flume
- elute
- flite
- fluty
- flyte
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.