bits
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, bits sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 25bats, bets
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and bits is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is bit — a small piece or quantity of something. 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 b ih1 t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
47 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- acquits
- admits
- armpits
- befits
- blitz
- cockpits
- commits
- counterfeits
- emits
- fits
- grits
- hits
- hypocrites
- its
- kits
- knits
- misfits
- mitts
- omits
- outfits
- outwits
- permits
- pits
- quits
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
- bats
- bets
- bias
- bibs
- bids
- bins
- bite
- fits
- hits
- kits
- nits
- pits
- sits
- tits
- wits
- bios
- bots
- buts
- gits
- zits
- aits
- bigs
- bitt
- dits
- lits
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.