males
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, males sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3lames, meals
- One letter away
- 26bales, gales
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and males is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is male — being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation. 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 m ey1 l z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
57 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ails
- ales
- assails
- bails
- bales
- cocktails
- curtails
- derails
- details
- entails
- fails
- females
- fingernails
- gales
- hails
- hales
- handrails
- impales
- jails
- mails
- monorails
- nails
- pails
- pales
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: lames, meals, almes.
One letter away
- bales
- gales
- hales
- maces
- makes
- malls
- malts
- manes
- mares
- mates
- mazes
- miles
- moles
- mules
- pales
- sales
- tales
- dales
- mages
- maxes
- vales
- wales
- kales
- mabes
- malms
- rales
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.