itch

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

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1chit

One letter away

2etch, inch

• nouna contagious skin infection caused by the itch mite; characterized by persistent itching and skin irritation
• nouna strong restless desire
• nounan irritating cutaneous sensation that produces a desire to scratch

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ih1 ch — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• bewitch
• bitch
• ditch
• enrich
• hitch
• niche
• pitch
• rich
• snitch
• stitch
• switch
• twitch
• which
• witch
• fitch
• glitch
• kitsch
• unhitch
• ich
• lich
• stich
• wich

One other word use exactly these letters: chit.

• etch
• inch

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

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts I6,978
• Starts IT81
• Ends H
• 4 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.