is

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 2 letters. In the size-ranked list, is sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

296 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1si

One letter away

8as, id

Open English WordNet has no entry for is and no lemma one regular ending away from it. It is in the word list and in the size-ranked tiers, which is all this site knows about it. No definition is invented here.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ih1 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.

• axes
• chandeliers
• fizz
• his
• quiz
• whiz
• biz
• duckies
• frizz
• pisses
• typologies
• wiz
• tis

One other word use exactly these letters: si.

• as
• id
• if
• in
• it
• us
• es
• os

Same length, one position changed. 8% of the 96 words this long are a neighbour.

• 2 letter words96
• Starts I6,978
• Starts IS285
• Ends S
• 2 letters starting I

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.