meets
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, meets sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2metes, teems
- One letter away
- 8beets, meats
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and meets is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is meet — being precisely fitting and right. 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 m iy1 t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
43 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- athletes
- beats
- beets
- cheats
- cleats
- competes
- completes
- deceits
- defeats
- deletes
- depletes
- eats
- elites
- feats
- fleets
- greets
- heartbeats
- heats
- meats
- obsoletes
- parakeets
- petites
- pleats
- receipts
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: metes, teems.
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.