spit
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, spit sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2pits, tips
- One letter away
- 12skit, slit
What it means
- nouna narrow strip of land that juts out into the sea
- nouna clear liquid secreted into the mouth by the salivary glands and mucous glands of the mouth; moistens the mouth and starts the digestion of starches
- nouna skewer for holding meat over a fire
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s p 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
- nit
- omit
- outfit
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: pits, tips.
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.