lost

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, lost sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

2lots, slot

One letter away

16cost, dost

• adjectiveno longer in your possession or control; unable to be found or recovered
• adjectivehaving lost your bearings; confused as to time or place or personal identity
• adjectivespiritually or physically doomed or destroyed

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ao1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

10 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• accost
• crisscrossed
• crossed
• defrost
• embossed
• exhaust
• frost
• glossed
• holocaust
• tossed

2 other words use exactly these letters: lots, slot.

The whole set on one page.

• cost
• dost
• host
• last
• lest
• list
• loft
• loot
• lose
• loss
• lust
• most
• post
• lout
• wost
• tost

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts L5,055
• Starts LO936
• Ends T
• 4 letters starting L

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.