rats
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, rats sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4arts, star
- One letter away
- 27bats, cats
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and rats is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is rat — any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse. 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 r ae1 t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
41 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- acrobats
- aristocrats
- bats
- brats
- bureaucrats
- cats
- caveats
- chats
- combats
- democrats
- diplomats
- fats
- flats
- formats
- gnats
- habitats
- hats
- mats
- pats
- slats
- spats
- thermostats
- vats
- wildcats
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: arts, star, tars, tsar.
One letter away
- bats
- cats
- eats
- fats
- hats
- mats
- pats
- rags
- rams
- raps
- rate
- rays
- rots
- ruts
- vats
- oats
- rads
- tats
- wats
- gats
- kats
- lats
- qats
- rath
- raws
- rato
- rets
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.