golfs

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, golfs sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

1stress on the first

Anagrams

1flogs

One letter away

5golds, goofs

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and golfs is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is golf — a game played on a large open course with 9 or 18 holes; the object is use as few strokes as possible in playing all the holes. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as g aa1 l f s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

One other word use exactly these letters: flogs.

The whole set on one page.

• golds
• goofs
• gulfs
• wolfs
• rolfs

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts G5,589
• Starts GO607
• Ends S
• 5 letters starting G

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.