lines
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, lines sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2liens, lenis
- One letter away
- 27dines, fines
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and lines is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is line — a formation of people or things one beside another. 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 ay1 n z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
61 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- airlines
- aligns
- assigns
- canines
- coastlines
- combines
- confines
- deadlines
- declines
- defines
- designs
- dines
- felines
- fines
- grapevines
- guidelines
- headlines
- inclines
- lifelines
- mines
- nines
- outlines
- outshines
- pines
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: liens, lenis.
One letter away
- dines
- fines
- lanes
- likes
- limes
- lined
- linen
- liner
- links
- lives
- mines
- nines
- pines
- vines
- wines
- lings
- sines
- tines
- bines
- cines
- kines
- lenes
- liney
- linns
- linos
- lints
- lunes
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 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.