liter
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, liter sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3relit, tiler
- One letter away
- 13later, liner
What it means
- nouna metric unit of capacity, formerly defined as the volume of one kilogram of pure water under standard conditions; now equal to 1,000 cubic centimeters (or approximately 1.75 pints)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l iy1 t er0 — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
26 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- anteater
- beater
- centimeter
- eater
- heater
- meter
- millimeter
- neater
- peter
- sweeter
- teeter
- ammeter
- cheater
- deciliter
- dieter
- gravimeter
- milliliter
- nanometer
- praetor
- repeater
- skeeter
- beefeater
- metre
- seater
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: relit, tiler, litre.
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.