kites
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, kites sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2skite, tikes
- One letter away
- 15bites, cites
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and kites is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is kit — a case for containing a set of articles. 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 k ay1 t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
82 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- appetites
- bites
- bytes
- cites
- copyrights
- delights
- excites
- extradites
- fights
- flashlights
- flights
- floodlights
- footlights
- headlights
- heights
- highlights
- ignites
- incites
- insights
- invites
- kilobytes
- knights
- lights
- megabytes
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: skite, tikes.
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.