hints
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, hints sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1thins
- One letter away
- 12hilts, hinds
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and hints is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is hint — an indirect suggestion. 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 ih1 n t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
14 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- blueprints
- fingerprints
- flints
- footprints
- imprints
- mints
- misprints
- prints
- splints
- sprints
- stints
- tints
- quints
- reprints
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: thins.
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.