rails
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, rails sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 6lairs, liars
- One letter away
- 16bails, fails
What it means
- nouna bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r ey1 l z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
57 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ails
- ales
- assails
- bails
- bales
- cocktails
- curtails
- derails
- details
- entails
- fails
- females
- fingernails
- gales
- hails
- hales
- handrails
- impales
- jails
- mails
- males
- monorails
- nails
- pails
Its letters, rearranged
6 other words use exactly these letters: lairs, liars, rials, arils, laris, liras.
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.