laps
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, laps sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4pals, slap
- One letter away
- 27caps, gaps
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and laps is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is lap — the upper side of the thighs of a seated person. 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 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
- gaps
- handicaps
- kidnaps
- kneecaps
- lapse
- maps
- mishaps
- naps
- overlaps
- perhaps
- raps
- recaps
- relapse
- saps
- scraps
- slaps
- snaps
- straps
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: pals, slap, alps, salp.
One letter away
- caps
- gaps
- labs
- lads
- lags
- lass
- laws
- lays
- lips
- lops
- maps
- naps
- raps
- saps
- taps
- yaps
- baps
- lams
- lars
- lavs
- paps
- zaps
- daps
- haps
- lacs
- lats
- waps
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.