quiet

The filled squares are the 3 vowels — 3 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, quiet sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1quite

One letter away

3quilt, quint

• adjectivecharacterized by an absence or near absence of agitation or activity
• adjectivefree of noise or uproar; or making little if any sound
• adjectivenot showy or obtrusive

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k w ay1 ah0 t — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

4 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• diet
• disquiet
• riot
• guyot

One other word use exactly these letters: quite.

The whole set on one page.

• quilt
• quint
• quirt

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts Q822
• Starts QU805
• Ends T
• 5 letters starting Q

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.