taps
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, taps sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3past, pats
- One letter away
- 31caps, gaps
What it means
- noun(military) signal to turn the lights out
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ae1 p s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
35 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- caps
- chaps
- claps
- collapse
- elapse
- flaps
- gaps
- handicaps
- kidnaps
- kneecaps
- laps
- lapse
- maps
- mishaps
- naps
- overlaps
- perhaps
- raps
- recaps
- relapse
- saps
- scraps
- slaps
- snaps
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: past, pats, spat.
One letter away
- caps
- gaps
- laps
- maps
- naps
- raps
- saps
- tabs
- tags
- tans
- tape
- tars
- tips
- tops
- yaps
- baps
- paps
- tads
- tams
- tass
- tats
- taus
- zaps
- daps
- haps
- taos
- tapa
- tavs
- taws
- tups
- waps
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.