waste
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, waste sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3sweat, tawse
- One letter away
- 6baste, caste
What it means
- adjectivelocated in a dismal or remote area; desolate
- nounany materials unused and rejected as worthless or unwanted
- nounuseless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w ey1 s t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
36 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aced
- based
- baste
- braced
- chased
- chaste
- debased
- defaced
- disgraced
- displaced
- distaste
- embraced
- encased
- erased
- faced
- foretaste
- graced
- haste
- laced
- misplaced
- paced
- paste
- placed
- raced
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: sweat, tawse, twaes.
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.