lapse
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, lapse sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 7leaps, pales
- One letter away
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
- nouna mistake resulting from inattention
- nouna break or intermission in the occurrence of something
- nouna failure to maintain a higher state
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
- laps
- maps
- mishaps
- naps
- overlaps
- perhaps
- raps
- recaps
- relapse
- saps
- scraps
- slaps
- snaps
- straps
Its letters, rearranged
7 other words use exactly these letters: leaps, pales, peals, pleas, sepal, salep, spale.
One letter away
No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.
Same length, one position changed.
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.