miles
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, miles sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3limes, slime
- One letter away
- 21files, males
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and miles is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is mil — a Cypriot monetary unit equal to one thousandth of a pound. 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 ay1 l z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
27 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aisles
- compiles
- crocodiles
- exiles
- files
- gentiles
- isles
- lifestyles
- piles
- profiles
- reconciles
- riles
- smiles
- stockpiles
- styles
- textiles
- tiles
- turnstiles
- whiles
- percentiles
- rials
- stiles
- wiles
- biles
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: limes, slime, smile.
One letter away
- files
- males
- mikes
- milks
- mills
- mimes
- mines
- mires
- mites
- mixes
- moles
- mules
- piles
- riles
- tiles
- miler
- milts
- wiles
- biles
- milos
- mises
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.