edit

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, edit sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

4diet, tide

One letter away

3emit, exit

• verbprepare for publication or presentation by correcting, revising, or adapting
• verbsupervise the publication of
• verbcut and assemble the components of

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as eh1 d ah0 t — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• credit
• discredit
• accredit

4 other words use exactly these letters: diet, tide, tied, dite.

The whole set on one page.

• emit
• exit
• adit

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts E7,067
• Starts ED128
• Ends T
• 4 letters starting E

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.