times
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, times sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 6emits, items
- One letter away
- 13dimes, limes
What it means
- nouna more or less definite period of time now or previously present
- nounan arithmetic operation that is the inverse of division; the product of two numbers is computed
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ay1 m z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
21 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- chimes
- climbs
- climes
- crimes
- dimes
- enzymes
- grimes
- lifetimes
- limes
- pastimes
- primes
- rhymes
- sometimes
- centimes
- halftimes
- oftentimes
- paradigms
- rimes
- daytimes
- nighttimes
- wartimes
Its letters, rearranged
6 other words use exactly these letters: emits, items, mites, smite, metis, stime.
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.