gales
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, gales 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
- 21bales, galas
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and gales is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is gal — United States liquid unit equal to 4 quarts or 3.785 liters. 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 g 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
- bails
- bales
- cocktails
- curtails
- derails
- details
- entails
- fails
- females
- fingernails
- hails
- hales
- handrails
- impales
- jails
- mails
- males
- monorails
- nails
- pails
- pales
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- bales
- galas
- galls
- games
- gapes
- gases
- gates
- gazes
- hales
- males
- pales
- sales
- tales
- dales
- vales
- wales
- gages
- galea
- gules
- kales
- rales
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.