items

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, items sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

6emits, mites

One letter away

1stems

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and items is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is item — a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

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

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

6 other words use exactly these letters: emits, mites, times, smite, metis, stime.

The whole set on one page.

• stems

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts I6,978
• Starts IT81
• Ends S
• 5 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.