item

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, item sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

3emit, mite

One letter away

2stem, idem

• nouna distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list
• nouna small part that can be considered separately from the whole
• nouna whole individual unit; especially when included in a list or collection

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ay1 t ah0 m — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

3 other words use exactly these letters: emit, mite, time.

The whole set on one page.

• stem
• idem

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts I6,978
• Starts IT81
• Ends M
• 4 letters starting I

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.