poets

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, poets sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

4pesto, estop

One letter away

4poems, ports

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and poets is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is poet — a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry). The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ow1 ah0 t s — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

4 other words use exactly these letters: pesto, estop, stope, topes.

• poems
• ports
• posts
• pouts

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts P14,566
• Starts PO1,866
• Ends S
• 5 letters starting P

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.