time
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, time sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3emit, item
- One letter away
- 11dime, lime
What it means
- nounan instance or single occasion for some event
- nouna period of time considered as a resource under your control and sufficient to accomplish something
- nounan indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities)
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t ay1 m — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
45 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bedtime
- chime
- climb
- crime
- daytime
- dime
- enzyme
- grime
- lifetime
- lime
- lunchtime
- maritime
- meantime
- mime
- nighttime
- overtime
- pantomime
- paradigm
- pastime
- prime
- ragtime
- rhyme
- slime
- sometime
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: emit, item, mite.
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.