loses
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, loses sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3soles, sloes
- One letter away
- 18doses, hoses
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and loses is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is lose — fail to keep or to maintain; cease to have, either physically or in an abstract sense. 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 uw1 z ah0 z — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
7 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: soles, sloes, loess.
One letter away
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.