wheat
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, wheat sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 2cheat, wheal
What it means
- nounannual or biennial grass having erect flower spikes and light brown grains
- noungrains of common wheat; sometimes cooked whole or cracked as cereal; usually ground into flour
- nouna variable yellow tint; dull yellow, often diluted with white
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as w iy1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
73 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- athlete
- beat
- beet
- bittersweet
- browbeat
- cheat
- cleat
- compete
- complete
- conceit
- concrete
- deceit
- defeat
- delete
- deplete
- discreet
- discrete
- eat
- elite
- excrete
- feat
- feet
- fleet
- greet
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- cheat
- wheal
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.