emit

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, emit sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the second

Anagrams

3item, mite

One letter away

6edit, emir

• verbexpel (gases or odors)
• verbgive off, send forth, or discharge; as of light, heat, or radiation, vapor, etc.
• verbexpress audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words)

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ih0 m ih1 t — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.

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

• acquit
• admit
• armpit
• befit
• bit
• cockpit
• commit
• counterfeit
• fit
• flit
• grit
• hit
• hypocrite
• it
• kit
• knit
• lit
• misfit
• mitt
• moonlit
• nit
• omit
• outfit
• outwit

3 other words use exactly these letters: item, mite, time.

The whole set on one page.

• edit
• emir
• exit
• omit
• emic
• smit

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts E7,067
• Starts EM610
• Ends T
• 4 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.