knits
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, knits sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2stink, skint
- One letter away
- 3knots, units
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and knits is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is knit — a fabric made by knitting. 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 n ih1 t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
47 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- acquits
- admits
- armpits
- befits
- bits
- blitz
- cockpits
- commits
- counterfeits
- emits
- fits
- grits
- hits
- hypocrites
- its
- kits
- misfits
- mitts
- omits
- outfits
- outwits
- permits
- pits
- quits
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: stink, skint.
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.