mires
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, mires sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3emirs, miser
- One letter away
- 21fires, hires
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and mires is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is mire — a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot. 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 r z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
8 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- admires
- choirs
- inspires
- retires
- sires
- spires
- shires
- vires
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: emirs, miser, rimes.
One letter away
- fires
- hires
- mares
- meres
- mikes
- miles
- mimes
- mines
- mired
- mites
- mixes
- sires
- tires
- wires
- mores
- cires
- mirex
- mirks
- mures
- mises
- vires
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.