forts
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, forts sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1frost
- One letter away
- 17fonts, foots
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and forts is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is fort — a fortified military post where troops are stationed. 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 f ao1 r t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
30 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aborts
- airports
- contorts
- courts
- distorts
- exhorts
- extorts
- imports
- passports
- ports
- purports
- quarts
- quartz
- reports
- resorts
- retorts
- seaports
- shorts
- snorts
- sorts
- sports
- supports
- thwarts
- transports
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: frost.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.