blitz

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, blitz 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

2glitz, blite

• noun(American football) defensive players try to break through the offensive line
• nouna swift and violent military offensive with intensive aerial bombardment
• verbattack suddenly and without warning

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b l 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
• bits
• cockpits
• commits
• counterfeits
• emits
• fits
• grits
• hits
• hypocrites
• its
• kits
• knits
• misfits
• mitts
• omits
• outfits
• outwits
• permits
• pits
• quits

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• glitz
• blite

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts B9,279
• Starts BL914
• Ends Z
• 5 letters starting B

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.