aids
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, aids sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3dais, said
- One letter away
- 16adds, aide
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and aids is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is aid — a person or thing that is a resource that helps make something easier or possible to do. 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 ey1 d z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
47 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- accolades
- aides
- arcades
- barricades
- blades
- blockades
- braids
- bridesmaids
- brigades
- brocades
- cascades
- crusades
- decades
- degrades
- downgrades
- escapades
- evades
- fades
- glades
- grades
- grenades
- invades
- jades
- maids
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: dais, said, sadi.
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.