port
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, port sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1trop
- One letter away
- 14fort, part
What it means
- adjectivelocated on the left side of a ship or aircraft
- nouna place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country
- nounsweet dark-red dessert wine originally from Portugal
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ao1 r t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
45 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abort
- airport
- cavort
- consort
- contort
- court
- deport
- distort
- escort
- exhort
- extort
- fort
- import
- passport
- purport
- quart
- report
- resort
- retort
- seaport
- short
- snort
- sort
- sport
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: trop.
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.