urges

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, urges sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2surge, grues

One letter away

2urged, urger

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and urges is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is urge — an instinctive motive. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as er1 jh ah0 z — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

1 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

• surges

2 other words use exactly these letters: surge, grues.

The whole set on one page.

• urged
• urger

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts U5,070
• Starts UR224
• Ends S
• 5 letters starting U

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.