kite
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, kite sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1tike
- One letter away
- 15bite, cite
What it means
- nouna bank check that has been fraudulently altered to increase its face value
- nouna bank check drawn on insufficient funds at another bank in order to take advantage of the float
- nounplaything consisting of a light frame covered with tissue paper; flown in wind at end of a string
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as k ay1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
170 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- airtight
- alight
- apartheid
- appetite
- bite
- blight
- bright
- bullfight
- byte
- cite
- contrite
- copyright
- daylight
- delight
- despite
- downright
- dynamite
- erudite
- excite
- expedite
- extradite
- eyesight
- fight
- finite
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: tike.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.