muted
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, muted sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 9mated, meted
What it means
- adjectivein a softened tone
- adjectivebeing or made softer or less loud or clear
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m y uw1 t ih0 d — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
24 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- booted
- commuted
- electrocuted
- executed
- hooted
- instituted
- parachuted
- persecuted
- polluted
- prosecuted
- recruited
- refuted
- reputed
- rerouted
- routed
- saluted
- substituted
- suited
- unsuited
- uprooted
- imputed
- reconstituted
- undiluted
- undisputed
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.