nit
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, nit sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1tin
- One letter away
- 21bit, fit
What it means
- nouna luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source
- nounegg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as n ih1 t — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
55 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- acquit
- admit
- armpit
- befit
- bit
- cockpit
- commit
- counterfeit
- emit
- fit
- flit
- grit
- hit
- hypocrite
- it
- kit
- knit
- lit
- misfit
- mitt
- moonlit
- omit
- outfit
- outwit
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: tin.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 2% of the 972 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.