tent
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, tent sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1nett
- One letter away
- 18bent, cent
What it means
- nouna portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs)
- nouna web that resembles a tent or carpet
- verblive in or as if in a tent
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t eh1 n t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
55 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- accent
- advent
- ascent
- assent
- augment
- bent
- cement
- cent
- circumvent
- congruent
- consent
- dent
- descent
- discontent
- dissent
- event
- extent
- ferment
- gent
- indent
- intent
- invent
- lament
- lent
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: nett.
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.