buoys

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

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

1bousy

One letter away

0none in this dictionary

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and buoys is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is buoy — a float attached by rope to the seabed to mark channels in a harbor or underwater hazards; typically brightly-coloured. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b uw1 iy0 z — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

One other word use exactly these letters: bousy.

No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.

Same length, one position changed.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts B9,279
• Starts BU1,085
• Ends S
• 5 letters starting B

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.