bowls
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, bowls sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1blows
- One letter away
- 8bawls, boils
What it means
- nouna bowling game played on a level lawn with biased wooden balls that are rolled at a jack
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ow1 l z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
51 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- buttonholes
- charcoals
- coals
- consoles
- controls
- doles
- enrolls
- extols
- flagpoles
- goals
- holes
- keyholes
- loopholes
- moles
- paroles
- patrols
- payrolls
- poles
- polls
- potholes
- roles
- rolls
- scrolls
- shoals
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: blows.
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.