seat
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, seat sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 7east, eats
- One letter away
- 23beat, feat
What it means
- nouna space reserved for sitting (as in a theater or on a train or airplane)
- nounthe fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
- nounfurniture that is designed for sitting on
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s iy1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
73 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- athlete
- beat
- beet
- bittersweet
- browbeat
- cheat
- cleat
- compete
- complete
- conceit
- concrete
- deceit
- defeat
- delete
- deplete
- discreet
- discrete
- eat
- elite
- excrete
- feat
- feet
- fleet
- greet
Its letters, rearranged
7 other words use exactly these letters: east, eats, teas, etas, sate, seta, ates.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.