balls
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, balls sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 21bails, balds
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and balls is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is ball — round object that is hit or thrown or kicked in games. 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 b ao1 l z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
51 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- appalls
- baseballs
- basketballs
- bawls
- befalls
- brawls
- calls
- catcalls
- crawls
- drawls
- eyeballs
- falls
- footballs
- forestalls
- galls
- halls
- hauls
- installs
- malls
- mothballs
- overalls
- overhauls
- pitfalls
- protocols
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- bails
- balds
- bales
- balks
- balms
- bawls
- bells
- bills
- bulls
- calls
- falls
- galls
- halls
- malls
- palls
- walls
- bally
- bolls
- baals
- balas
- lalls
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.