owls

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, owls sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

43,903 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

2lows, slow

One letter away

4oils, owes

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and owls is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is owl — nocturnal bird of prey with hawk-like beak and claws and large head with front-facing eyes. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as aw1 l z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

4 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• fouls
• growls
• howls
• jowls

2 other words use exactly these letters: lows, slow.

The whole set on one page.

• oils
• owes
• owns
• awls

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 words this long are a neighbour.

• 4 letter words3,903
• Starts O5,843
• Starts OW25
• Ends S
• 4 letters starting O

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.