start
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, start sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1tarts
- One letter away
- 7smart, stare
What it means
- nounthe beginning of anything
- nounthe time at which something is supposed to begin
- nouna turn to be a starter (in a game at the beginning)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s t aa1 r t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
25 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- apart
- art
- cart
- chart
- counterpart
- dart
- depart
- hart
- heart
- impart
- mart
- outsmart
- part
- restart
- smart
- sweetheart
- tart
- upstart
- fart
- flowchart
- multipart
- oxcart
- rampart
- carte
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: tarts.
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.