late
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, late sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4tale, teal
- One letter away
- 24date, fate
What it means
- adjectivebeing or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time
- adjectiveafter the expected or usual time; delayed
- adjectiveof the immediate past or just previous to the present time
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ey1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
486 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abate
- abbreviate
- abdicate
- accelerate
- acclimate
- accommodate
- accumulate
- activate
- adulterate
- affiliate
- aggravate
- agitate
- alienate
- alleviate
- allocate
- amalgamate
- amputate
- annihilate
- annotate
- anticipate
- appreciate
- arbitrate
- articulate
- asphyxiate
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: tale, teal, tael, tela.
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.