paste
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, paste sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 6pates, spate
- One letter away
- 10baste, caste
What it means
- nounany mixture of a soft and malleable consistency
- nouna hard, brilliant lead glass that is used in making artificial jewelry
- nounan adhesive made from water and flour or starch; used on paper and paperboard
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ey1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
36 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aced
- based
- baste
- braced
- chased
- chaste
- debased
- defaced
- disgraced
- displaced
- distaste
- embraced
- encased
- erased
- faced
- foretaste
- graced
- haste
- laced
- misplaced
- paced
- placed
- raced
- replaced
Its letters, rearranged
6 other words use exactly these letters: pates, spate, tapes, septa, peats, tepas.
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.