hitch
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, hitch sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 9bitch, ditch
What it means
- nouna period of time spent in military service
- nounthe state of inactivity following an interruption
- nounan unforeseen obstacle
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh ih1 ch — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
22 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bewitch
- bitch
- ditch
- enrich
- itch
- niche
- pitch
- rich
- snitch
- stitch
- switch
- twitch
- which
- witch
- fitch
- glitch
- kitsch
- unhitch
- ich
- lich
- stich
- wich
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.