ashes

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1sheas

One letter away

4aches, ashen

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and ashes is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is ash — the residue that remains when something is burned. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as ae1 sh ah0 z — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

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

• backlashes
• gashes
• hashes
• backslashes
• whiplashes

One other word use exactly these letters: sheas.

• aches
• ashen
• asses
• ashed

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts A10,456
• Starts AS679
• 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.