rebut
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, rebut sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 3brute, tuber
- One letter away
- 4debut, rebus
What it means
- verboverthrow by argument, evidence, or proof
- verbprove to be false or incorrect
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r ih0 b ah1 t — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
32 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- but
- butt
- chestnut
- coconut
- cut
- donut
- doughnut
- glut
- gut
- haircut
- hut
- jut
- mutt
- nut
- putt
- rut
- shut
- slut
- smut
- somewhat
- strut
- uncut
- undercut
- walnut
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: brute, tuber, buret.
One letter away
- debut
- rebus
- rebuy
- recut
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.