lets
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, lets sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2lest, tels
- One letter away
- 23bets, gets
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and lets is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is let — a serve that strikes the net before falling into the receiver's court; the ball must be served again. 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 l eh1 t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
54 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- assets
- bayonets
- bets
- brunettes
- cadets
- cassettes
- cigarettes
- debts
- duets
- epithets
- forgets
- frets
- gets
- inlets
- jets
- nets
- offsets
- outlets
- pets
- pirouettes
- quartets
- regrets
- resets
- sets
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: lest, tels.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.