quest
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, quest sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 1guest
What it means
- nouna search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria
- nounthe act of searching for something
- verbmake a search (for)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k w 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
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.