mites
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, mites sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 6emits, items
- One letter away
- 22bites, cites
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and mites is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is mite — a slight but appreciable amount. 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 ay1 t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
82 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- appetites
- bites
- bytes
- cites
- copyrights
- delights
- excites
- extradites
- fights
- flashlights
- flights
- floodlights
- footlights
- headlights
- heights
- highlights
- ignites
- incites
- insights
- invites
- kilobytes
- kites
- knights
- lights
Its letters, rearranged
6 other words use exactly these letters: emits, items, times, smite, metis, stime.
One letter away
- bites
- cites
- kites
- mates
- metes
- mikes
- miles
- mimes
- mines
- mires
- mitts
- mixes
- mutes
- rites
- sites
- miter
- motes
- dites
- mitis
- wites
- mises
- nites
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.