lavas

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, lavas sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

—not in the pronouncing dictionary

Anagrams

1vasal

One letter away

5favas, lamas

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and lavas is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is lava — rock that in its molten form (as magma) issues from volcanoes; lava is what magma is called when it reaches the surface. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

Not one of the 50,962 words of ours that the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary covers, so this page prints no syllable count, no stress and no rhymes for it.

One other word use exactly these letters: vasal.

• favas
• lamas
• laves
• javas
• kavas

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts L5,055
• Starts LA1,354
• Ends S
• 5 letters starting L

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.