step

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, step sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

3pest, pets

One letter away

7seep, stem

• nounany maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal
• nounthe distance covered by a step
• nounthe act of changing location by raising the foot and setting it down

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s t eh1 p — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

16 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• doorstep
• footstep
• overstep
• pep
• sidestep
• hep
• lockstep
• misstep
• prep
• rep
• steppe
• strep
• yep
• cep
• repp
• schlepp

3 other words use exactly these letters: pest, pets, sept.

The whole set on one page.

• seep
• stem
• stew
• stop
• stet
• skep
• stey

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts S18,988
• Starts ST2,597
• Ends P
• 4 letters starting S

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.