pest
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, pest sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3pets, step
- One letter away
- 19best, jest
What it means
- nouna serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal
- nounany epidemic disease with a high death rate
- nouna persistently annoying person
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p eh1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
90 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abreast
- accessed
- acquiesced
- addressed
- arrest
- assessed
- attest
- bequest
- best
- blessed
- breast
- caressed
- chest
- coalesced
- compressed
- confessed
- crest
- depressed
- detest
- digest
- digressed
- dispossessed
- distressed
- divest
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: pets, step, sept.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.