lag
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 3 letters. In the size-ranked list, lag sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 3972 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1gal
- One letter away
- 28bag, gag
What it means
- nounthe act of slowing down or falling behind
- nounthe time between one event, process, or period and another
- nounone of several thin slats of wood forming the sides of a barrel or bucket
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as l ae1 g — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
29 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: gal.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. 3% of the 972 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.