posts
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, posts sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2spots, stops
- One letter away
- 9costs, hosts
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and posts is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is post — the position where someone (as a guard or sentry) stands or is assigned to stand. 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 ow1 s t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
12 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- boasts
- coasts
- ghosts
- hosts
- outposts
- roasts
- signposts
- toasts
- cohosts
- guideposts
- lampposts
- sternposts
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: spots, stops.
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.