riles
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, riles sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3slier, liers
- One letter away
- 20files, miles
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and riles is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is rile — cause annoyance in; disturb, especially by minor irritations. 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 r ay1 l z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
27 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aisles
- compiles
- crocodiles
- exiles
- files
- gentiles
- isles
- lifestyles
- miles
- piles
- profiles
- reconciles
- smiles
- stockpiles
- styles
- textiles
- tiles
- turnstiles
- whiles
- percentiles
- rials
- stiles
- wiles
- biles
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: slier, liers, riels.
One letter away
- files
- miles
- piles
- rices
- rides
- riled
- rises
- rites
- roles
- rules
- tiles
- riley
- rills
- rimes
- rives
- wiles
- biles
- rales
- ribes
- ripes
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.