halts
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, halts sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2shalt, laths
- One letter away
- 12hales, halls
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and halts is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is halt — disabled in the feet or legs. 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 hh ao1 l t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
10 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: shalt, laths.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.