sells
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, sells sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 15bells, cells
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and sells is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is sell — the activity of persuading someone to buy. 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 s eh1 l z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
45 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bells
- bluebells
- cartels
- cells
- compels
- dispels
- dumbbells
- dwells
- excels
- farewells
- fells
- gazelles
- hotels
- lapels
- misspells
- motels
- nutshells
- parallels
- pastels
- propels
- repels
- seashells
- shells
- smells
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.