least
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, least sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 9slate, stale
- One letter away
- 7beast, feast
What it means
- adjectivethe superlative of ‘little’ that can be used with mass nouns and is usually preceded by ‘the’; a quantifier meaning smallest in amount or extent or degree
- nounsomething that is of no importance
- adverbused to form the superlative, smallest in size or degree
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l iy1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
19 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- beast
- ceased
- deceased
- decreased
- east
- feast
- fleeced
- greased
- increased
- leased
- northeast
- pieced
- policed
- priest
- released
- southeast
- trendiest
- yeast
- toniest
Its letters, rearranged
9 other words use exactly these letters: slate, stale, steal, tales, teals, tesla, setal, stela, taels.
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.