fleas
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, fleas sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3false, leafs
- One letter away
- 5flees, pleas
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and fleas is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is flea — any wingless bloodsucking parasitic insect noted for ability to leap. 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 l iy1 z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
152 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abilities
- absentees
- agrees
- analyses
- antifreeze
- apologies
- apostrophes
- appease
- appendices
- appointees
- bees
- binaries
- breeze
- bumblebees
- cheese
- companies
- decrees
- degrees
- devotees
- diocese
- dioceses
- disagrees
- disease
- displease
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: false, leafs, alefs.
One letter away
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.