cops
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, cops sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1scop
- One letter away
- 26caps, cobs
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and cops is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is cop — uncomplimentary terms for a policeman. 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 aa1 p s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
33 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bellhops
- bookshops
- chops
- crops
- drops
- flops
- hops
- lollipops
- mops
- pops
- props
- raindrops
- shops
- sops
- stops
- swaps
- tops
- workshops
- backdrops
- countertops
- desktops
- hilltops
- laptops
- mountaintops
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: scop.
One letter away
- caps
- cobs
- cods
- cogs
- cons
- coos
- cope
- copy
- cots
- cows
- cups
- hops
- lops
- mops
- pops
- sops
- tops
- bops
- cols
- fops
- oops
- wops
- ceps
- coss
- coys
- kops
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.