names
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, names sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 6manes, means
- One letter away
- 17dames, games
What it means
- nounverbal abuse; a crude substitute for argument
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as n ey1 m z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
21 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- acclaims
- aims
- blames
- claims
- dames
- disclaims
- exclaims
- flames
- frames
- games
- inflames
- maims
- mainframes
- nicknames
- proclaims
- shames
- surnames
- tames
- counterclaims
- airframes
- hames
Its letters, rearranged
6 other words use exactly these letters: manes, means, manse, mensa, amens, nemas.
One letter away
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.