scout
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, scout 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
- 6scoot, scour
What it means
- nouna person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
- nounsomeone employed to discover and recruit talented persons (especially in the worlds of entertainment or sports)
- nounsomeone who can find paths through unexplored territory
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s k aw1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
72 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- about
- blackout
- blowout
- bout
- checkout
- clout
- devout
- doubt
- dropout
- drought
- dugout
- fallout
- flout
- gout
- handout
- hangout
- knockout
- layout
- lookout
- out
- pout
- printout
- roundabout
- rout
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.