lags
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, lags sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2gals, slag
- One letter away
- 27bags, gags
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and lags is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is lag — the act of slowing down or falling behind. 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 l ae1 g z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
23 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bags
- brags
- crags
- drags
- flags
- gags
- handbags
- nags
- rags
- sags
- sandbags
- snags
- tags
- wags
- fags
- jags
- mags
- mailbags
- saddlebags
- scumbags
- shags
- scags
- zags
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: gals, slag.
One letter away
- bags
- gags
- hags
- labs
- lads
- laps
- lass
- laws
- lays
- legs
- logs
- lugs
- nags
- rags
- sags
- tags
- wags
- dags
- fags
- jags
- lams
- lars
- lavs
- mags
- lacs
- lats
- zags
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.