hills
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, hills sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1shill
- One letter away
- 23bills, dills
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and hills is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is hill — a local and well-defined elevation of the land. 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 hh ih1 l z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
38 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- anthills
- bills
- chills
- daffodils
- dills
- distills
- drills
- fills
- foothills
- frills
- fulfills
- gills
- grills
- ills
- instills
- kills
- mills
- pills
- refills
- sills
- skills
- spills
- stills
- thrills
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: shill.
One letter away
- bills
- dills
- fills
- gills
- halls
- hilly
- hilts
- hulls
- kills
- mills
- pills
- sills
- tills
- wills
- rills
- hells
- hilus
- jills
- nills
- vills
- zills
- hillo
- yills
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.