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est

/ɛst/adjective

est is spelled E-S-T: 3 letters and one syllable. It appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,957th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As an adjective, est means “Abbreviation of established” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in est?

Letters3: E-S-T
Syllables1 (from its American pronunciation)
In writing13 times per million words; the 5,957th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with
Same letters

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is est?

Est appears 13 times per million words in written English, the 5,957th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce est?

  • /ɛst/

Est has one syllable (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-est.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl--est.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Words people confuse with est

Also written: este.

Sources: English Wiktionary (homophones, alternative spellings).

What rhymes with est?

5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as est from its last stressed vowel (/ɪst/):

Spelled with the same letters in another order: set, tse.

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of est

  • este
  • est.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does est mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

adjective

  1. 1

    Abbreviation of established.

    Acme Manufacturing Inc., est 1952

noun

as EST
  1. 1

    Initialism of English subtitles.

  2. 2

    Initialism of expressed sequence tag.

  3. 3

    Initialism of endodermal sinus tumor.

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteGrace; favour.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Est in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchplus (superlative of adjectives and adverbs), -es, -is, -s (second-person singular present tense of verbs), STA (English subtitles)
German-ster, -ste, am ...-sten (superlative of adjectives and adverbs), -st (second-person singular present tense of verbs)
Spanishmás (superlative of adjectives and adverbs), -as, -es (second-person singular present tense of verbs)
Portuguese-as, -es (second-person singular present tense of verbs)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

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