skins
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, skins sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1sinks
- One letter away
- 10shins, skids
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and skins is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is skin — a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch. 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 k ih1 n z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
22 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- begins
- bins
- fins
- grins
- inns
- ins
- pins
- sins
- spins
- thins
- tins
- twins
- violins
- wins
- buckskins
- kingpins
- pigskins
- puffins
- redskins
- wynns
- zins
- lins
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: sinks.
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.