lace
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, lace sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1alec
- One letter away
- 19face, lack
What it means
- nouna cord that is drawn through eyelets or around hooks in order to draw together two edges (as of a shoe or garment)
- nouna delicate decorative fabric woven in an open web of symmetrical patterns
- verbspin, wind, or twist together
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ey1 s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
67 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ace
- aerospace
- base
- birthplace
- bookcase
- brace
- briefcase
- case
- chase
- commonplace
- database
- debase
- deface
- disgrace
- displace
- embrace
- encase
- erase
- face
- fireplace
- grace
- interface
- mace
- marketplace
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: alec.
One letter away
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.