pits
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, pits sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2spit, tips
- One letter away
- 27bits, fits
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and pits is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is pit — a sizeable hole (usually in the ground). 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 ih1 t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
47 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- acquits
- admits
- armpits
- befits
- bits
- blitz
- cockpits
- commits
- counterfeits
- emits
- fits
- grits
- hits
- hypocrites
- its
- kits
- knits
- misfits
- mitts
- omits
- outfits
- outwits
- permits
- quits
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: spit, tips.
One letter away
- bits
- fits
- hits
- kits
- nits
- pats
- pets
- pies
- pigs
- pins
- pity
- pots
- puts
- sits
- tits
- wits
- gits
- pics
- pips
- piss
- pita
- pith
- zits
- aits
- dits
- lits
- pias
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.