fires
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, fires sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4fries, serif
- One letter away
- 20fares, files
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and fires is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is fir — nonresinous wood of a fir tree. 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 f ay1 er0 z — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
43 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- acquires
- amplifiers
- aspires
- backfires
- bonfires
- buyers
- desires
- dryers
- expires
- fliers
- friars
- hires
- identifiers
- inquires
- liars
- modifiers
- pacifiers
- pliers
- priors
- pyres
- qualifiers
- requires
- satires
- squires
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: fries, serif, frise, reifs.
One letter away
- fares
- files
- fines
- fired
- firms
- fives
- fixes
- fores
- hires
- mires
- sires
- tires
- wires
- fifes
- firer
- cires
- fices
- firns
- feres
- vires
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.