mazes
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, mazes sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1smaze
- One letter away
- 18dazes, fazes
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and mazes is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is maze — complex system of paths or tunnels in which it is easy to get lost. 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 m ey1 z ih0 z — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
3 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- amazes
- appraises
- blazes
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: smaze.
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.