sects
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, sects sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 4seats, setts
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and sects is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is sect — a subdivision of a larger religious group. 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 s eh1 k t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
35 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- affects
- aftereffects
- architects
- aspects
- collects
- connects
- corrects
- deflects
- detects
- dialects
- directs
- disconnects
- disrespects
- dissects
- effects
- ejects
- elects
- erects
- expects
- infects
- injects
- insects
- inspects
- intellects
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- seats
- setts
- septs
- sexts
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.