remit

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, remit sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the second

Anagrams

4merit, timer

One letter away

5refit, relit

• nounthe topic that a person, committee, or piece of research is expected to deal with or has authority to deal with
• noun(law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
• verbsend (money) in payment

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r iy0 m ih1 t — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.

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

4 other words use exactly these letters: merit, timer, miter, mitre.

The whole set on one page.

• refit
• relit
• remix
• demit
• remet

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts R10,159
• Starts RE6,681
• Ends T
• 5 letters starting R

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.