tiles
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, tiles sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3islet, stile
- One letter away
- 19files, miles
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and tiles is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is tile — a flat thin rectangular slab (as of fired clay or rubber or linoleum) used to cover surfaces. 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 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
- riles
- smiles
- stockpiles
- styles
- textiles
- turnstiles
- whiles
- percentiles
- rials
- stiles
- wiles
- biles
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: islet, stile, istle.
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.