lift
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, lift sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1flit
- One letter away
- 9gift, left
What it means
- nounthe act of giving temporary assistance
- nounthe component of the aerodynamic forces acting on an airfoil that opposes gravity
- nounthe event of something being raised upward
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ih1 f t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
19 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- adrift
- drift
- gift
- makeshift
- rift
- shift
- sift
- sniffed
- spendthrift
- stiffed
- swift
- thrift
- airlift
- forklift
- miffed
- riffed
- shoplift
- shrift
- clift
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: flit.
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.