maps
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, maps sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3amps, pams
- One letter away
- 25caps, gaps
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and maps is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is map — a diagrammatic representation of the earth's surface (or part of it). 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 ae1 p s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
35 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- caps
- chaps
- claps
- collapse
- elapse
- flaps
- gaps
- handicaps
- kidnaps
- kneecaps
- laps
- lapse
- mishaps
- naps
- overlaps
- perhaps
- raps
- recaps
- relapse
- saps
- scraps
- slaps
- snaps
- straps
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: amps, pams, samp.
One letter away
- caps
- gaps
- laps
- mads
- mans
- mars
- mass
- mats
- mays
- mops
- naps
- raps
- saps
- taps
- yaps
- baps
- macs
- mags
- maws
- paps
- zaps
- daps
- haps
- maes
- waps
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.