soft
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, soft sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 7loft, sift
What it means
- adjectiveyielding readily to pressure or weight
- adjectivecompassionate and kind; conciliatory
- adjective(of sound) relatively low in volume
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s aa1 f t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
2 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- waft
- toft
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
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.