shunt
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, shunt sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1hunts
- One letter away
- 3shuns, stunt
What it means
- nouna passage by which a bodily fluid (especially blood) is diverted from one channel to another
- nouna conductor having low resistance in parallel with another device to divert a fraction of the current
- nounimplant consisting of a tube made of plastic or rubber; for draining fluids within the body
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as sh ah1 n t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
20 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- affront
- blunt
- brunt
- confront
- forefront
- front
- grunt
- hunt
- punt
- stunt
- waterfront
- battlefront
- bunt
- cunt
- lakefront
- manhunt
- oceanfront
- riverfront
- upfront
- lunt
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: hunts.
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.