tents
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, tents sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1netts
- One letter away
- 14bents, cents
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and tents is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is tent — a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs). 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 t eh1 n t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
27 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- cents
- circumvents
- consents
- dents
- descents
- discontents
- dissents
- events
- ferments
- gents
- intents
- invents
- laments
- misrepresents
- portents
- presidents
- prevents
- rents
- repents
- represents
- resents
- scents
- torments
- vents
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: netts.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.