tales
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, tales sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 9least, slate
- One letter away
- 29bales, gales
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and tales is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is tale — a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program. 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 t 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
9 other words use exactly these letters: least, slate, stale, steal, teals, tesla, setal, stela, taels.
One letter away
- bales
- gales
- hales
- males
- pales
- sales
- takes
- talks
- tames
- tapes
- taxes
- tiles
- dales
- talus
- tares
- vales
- wales
- kales
- rales
- tabes
- taces
- tajes
- talas
- talcs
- taler
- teles
- toles
- tules
- tates
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.