joys
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, joys sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 14boys, jays
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and joys is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is joy — the emotion of great happiness. 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 jh oy1 z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
16 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- alloys
- annoys
- boys
- convoys
- cowboys
- destroys
- employs
- enjoys
- noise
- ploys
- poise
- schoolboys
- toys
- busboys
- deploys
- homeboys
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.