pit
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, pit sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1tip
- One letter away
- 27bit, fit
What it means
- nouna sizeable hole (usually in the ground)
- nouna concavity in a surface (especially an anatomical depression)
- nounthe hard inner (usually woody) layer of the pericarp of some fruits (as peaches or plums or cherries or olives) that contains the seed
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ih1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
55 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- acquit
- admit
- armpit
- befit
- bit
- cockpit
- commit
- counterfeit
- emit
- fit
- flit
- grit
- hit
- hypocrite
- it
- kit
- knit
- lit
- misfit
- mitt
- moonlit
- nit
- omit
- outfit
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: tip.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 3% of the 972 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.