evils
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, evils sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2lives, veils
- One letter away
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and evils is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is evil — morally bad or wrong. 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 iy1 v ah0 l z — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
2 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- upheavals
- weevils
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: lives, veils.
One letter away
No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.
Same length, one position changed.
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.