cots
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, cots sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2cost, scot
- One letter away
- 25cats, cobs
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and cots is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is cot — a sheath worn to protect a finger. 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 k aa1 t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
45 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- afterthoughts
- allots
- apricots
- blots
- boycotts
- clots
- crackpots
- dots
- gunshots
- jackpots
- kilowatts
- knots
- lots
- mascots
- plots
- pots
- robots
- rots
- shots
- slingshots
- slots
- snapshots
- spots
- squats
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: cost, scot.
One letter away
- cats
- cobs
- cods
- cogs
- cons
- coos
- cops
- cows
- cuts
- dots
- jots
- lots
- pots
- rots
- tots
- bots
- cols
- cote
- hots
- mots
- sots
- coss
- coys
- wots
- oots
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.