axles

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, axles sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1axels

One letter away

3axled, ables

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and axles is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is axle — a shaft on which a wheel rotates. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 k s ah0 l z — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

One other word use exactly these letters: axels.

• axled
• ables
• arles

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AX78
• Ends S
• 5 letters starting A

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.