scaly

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, scaly sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

—not in the pronouncing dictionary

Anagrams

2acyls, clays

One letter away

6scald, scale

• adjectiverough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf
• adjectivehaving the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles

Not one of the 50,962 words of ours that the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary covers, so this page prints no syllable count, no stress and no rhymes for it.

2 other words use exactly these letters: acyls, clays.

• scald
• scale
• scalp
• scary
• scall
• shaly

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts S18,988
• Starts SC1,427
• Ends Y
• 5 letters starting S

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.