reset
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, reset sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 6steer, terse
- One letter away
- 8beset, resew
What it means
- noundevice for resetting instruments or controls
- verbset anew
- verbset to zero
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r iy0 s eh1 t — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
97 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abet
- alphabet
- asset
- barrette
- bayonet
- beset
- bet
- brunette
- cadet
- cassette
- cigarette
- clarinet
- cornet
- debt
- duet
- epithet
- forget
- fret
- gazette
- get
- inlet
- jet
- kitchenette
- let
Its letters, rearranged
6 other words use exactly these letters: steer, terse, trees, ester, reest, stere.
One letter away
- beset
- resew
- relet
- remet
- resee
- revet
- rewet
- roset
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.