bails
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, bails sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1basil
- One letter away
- 17baits, balls
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and bails is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is bail — (criminal law) money that must be forfeited by the bondsman if an accused person fails to appear in court for trial. 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 b 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
- bales
- cocktails
- curtails
- derails
- details
- entails
- fails
- females
- fingernails
- gales
- hails
- hales
- handrails
- impales
- jails
- mails
- males
- monorails
- nails
- pails
- pales
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: basil.
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.