mays
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, mays sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1yams
- One letter away
- 27bays, days
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and mays is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is may — thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America. 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 z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
155 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ablaze
- allays
- always
- amaze
- appraise
- arrays
- ashtrays
- ballets
- bays
- betrays
- birthdays
- blase
- blaze
- bouquets
- braise
- byways
- cabarets
- cafes
- castaways
- causeways
- chalets
- cliches
- communiques
- conveys
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: yams.
One letter away
- bays
- days
- gays
- hays
- jays
- lays
- mads
- mans
- maps
- mars
- mass
- mats
- nays
- pays
- rays
- says
- ways
- cays
- fays
- macs
- mags
- maws
- maya
- mayo
- kays
- maes
- yays
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.