edits

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, edits sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

6diets, sited

One letter away

3emits, exits

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and edits is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is edit — prepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as eh1 d ih0 t s — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

1 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• credits

6 other words use exactly these letters: diets, sited, tides, deist, dites, stied.

The whole set on one page.

• emits
• exits
• adits

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts E7,067
• Starts ED128
• Ends S
• 5 letters starting E

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.