dims

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, dims sits in the everyday tier.

Letters
43,903 words share the length
Syllables
1stress on the first
Anagrams
1mids
One letter away
15aims, dams

What it means

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and dims is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is dim — lacking in light; not bright or harsh. 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 d ih1 m z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

13 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

Its letters, rearranged

One other word use exactly these letters: mids.

One letter away

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.