meant
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, meant sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2ament, menta
- One letter away
- 3means, meany
What it means
Open English WordNet has no entry for meant and no lemma one regular ending away from it. It is in the word list and in the size-ranked tiers, which is all this site knows about it. No definition is invented here.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m eh1 n t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
55 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- accent
- advent
- ascent
- assent
- augment
- bent
- cement
- cent
- circumvent
- congruent
- consent
- dent
- descent
- discontent
- dissent
- event
- extent
- ferment
- gent
- indent
- intent
- invent
- lament
- lent
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: ament, menta.
One letter away
- means
- meany
- leant
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.