gulfs
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, gulfs 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
- 6golfs, gulls
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and gulfs is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is gulf — an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay. 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 ah1 l f s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.
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.