acids

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

3asdic, cadis

One letter away

2acidy, amids

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and acids is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is acid — harsh or corrosive in tone. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 s ah0 d 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.

• antacids

3 other words use exactly these letters: asdic, cadis, caids.

• acidy
• amids

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AC888
• Ends S
• 5 letters starting A

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.