hosts

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, hosts sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

2shots, soths

One letter away

9costs, hoots

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and hosts is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is host — a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as hh ow1 s t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• boasts
• coasts
• ghosts
• outposts
• posts
• roasts
• signposts
• toasts
• cohosts
• guideposts
• lampposts
• sternposts

2 other words use exactly these letters: shots, soths.

The whole set on one page.

• costs
• hoots
• hoses
• posts
• hosta
• hests
• hists
• holts
• mosts

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts H6,303
• Starts HO1,418
• Ends S
• 5 letters starting H

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.