books
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, books sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 17booms, boons
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and books is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is book — a written work or composition that has been published (printed on pages bound together). 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 uh1 k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
30 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- brooks
- cookbooks
- cooks
- crooks
- guidebooks
- handbooks
- hooks
- looks
- matchbooks
- nooks
- notebooks
- outlooks
- overlooks
- passbooks
- pocketbooks
- rooks
- scrapbooks
- textbooks
- workbooks
- checkbooks
- overbooks
- overcooks
- schnooks
- schoolbooks
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.