pets
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, pets sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3pest, step
- One letter away
- 25bets, gets
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and pets is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is pet — preferred above all others and treated with partiality. 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 p 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
- lets
- nets
- offsets
- outlets
- pirouettes
- quartets
- regrets
- resets
- sets
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: pest, step, sept.
One letter away
- bets
- gets
- jets
- lets
- nets
- pats
- peas
- pegs
- pens
- peps
- pews
- pits
- pots
- puts
- sets
- vets
- wets
- pecs
- pees
- hets
- peds
- pehs
- tets
- fets
- rets
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.