nags
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, nags sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2sang, snag
- One letter away
- 19bags, gags
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and nags is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is nag — someone (especially a woman) who annoys people by constantly finding fault. 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 n ae1 g z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
23 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bags
- brags
- crags
- drags
- flags
- gags
- handbags
- lags
- rags
- sags
- sandbags
- snags
- tags
- wags
- fags
- jags
- mags
- mailbags
- saddlebags
- scumbags
- shags
- scags
- zags
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: sang, snag.
One letter away
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.