poles
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, poles sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2lopes, slope
- One letter away
- 27doles, holes
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and poles is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is pol — a person active in party politics. 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 p ow1 l z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
51 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bowls
- buttonholes
- charcoals
- coals
- consoles
- controls
- doles
- enrolls
- extols
- flagpoles
- goals
- holes
- keyholes
- loopholes
- moles
- paroles
- patrols
- payrolls
- polls
- potholes
- roles
- rolls
- scrolls
- shoals
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: lopes, slope.
One letter away
- doles
- holes
- moles
- pales
- piles
- pokes
- poled
- polls
- pores
- poses
- roles
- soles
- boles
- polys
- pones
- popes
- poxes
- pules
- voles
- coles
- poler
- polis
- polos
- pomes
- toles
- joles
- peles
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.