gaps
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, gaps sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1gasp
- One letter away
- 27caps, gabs
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and gaps is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is gap — a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures. 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 g ae1 p s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
35 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- caps
- chaps
- claps
- collapse
- elapse
- flaps
- handicaps
- kidnaps
- kneecaps
- laps
- lapse
- maps
- mishaps
- naps
- overlaps
- perhaps
- raps
- recaps
- relapse
- saps
- scraps
- slaps
- snaps
- straps
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: gasp.
One letter away
- caps
- gabs
- gags
- gals
- gape
- gays
- laps
- maps
- naps
- raps
- saps
- taps
- yaps
- baps
- gads
- gars
- gyps
- paps
- zaps
- daps
- gams
- gapy
- gats
- gips
- haps
- waps
- gaes
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.