hurts
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, hurts sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2hurst, ruths
- One letter away
- 5harts, hunts
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and hurts is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is hurt — suffering from physical injury especially that suffered in battle. 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 er1 t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
23 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- alerts
- asserts
- averts
- blurts
- desserts
- diverts
- exerts
- flirts
- inserts
- outskirts
- reverts
- shirts
- skirts
- spurts
- squirts
- subverts
- undershirts
- miniskirts
- nightshirts
- reasserts
- sweatshirts
- cherts
- worts
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: hurst, ruths.
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.