cats
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, cats sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3acts, cast
- One letter away
- 26bats, cabs
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and cats is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is cat — feline mammal usually having thick soft fur and no ability to roar: domestic cats; wildcats. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k ae1 t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
41 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- acrobats
- aristocrats
- bats
- brats
- bureaucrats
- caveats
- chats
- combats
- democrats
- diplomats
- fats
- flats
- formats
- gnats
- habitats
- hats
- mats
- pats
- rats
- slats
- spats
- thermostats
- vats
- wildcats
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: acts, cast, scat.
One letter away
- bats
- cabs
- cans
- caps
- cars
- caws
- cots
- cuts
- eats
- fats
- hats
- mats
- pats
- rats
- vats
- cads
- cams
- cays
- oats
- tats
- wats
- cate
- gats
- kats
- lats
- qats
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.