keys
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, keys sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1syke
- One letter away
- 9kegs, beys
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and keys is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is key — serving as an essential component. 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 k 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
One other word use exactly these letters: syke.
One letter away
- kegs
- beys
- kens
- deys
- kays
- keas
- kefs
- keps
- leys
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.