lyres

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, lyres sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

—not in the pronouncing dictionary

Anagrams

1slyer

One letter away

9lures, pyres

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and lyres is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is lyre — a harp used by ancient Greeks for accompaniment. 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: slyer.

• lures
• pyres
• byres
• eyres
• gyres
• lares
• lores
• lyses
• tyres

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts L5,055
• Starts LY180
• 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.