piles
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, piles sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 5plies, spiel
- One letter away
- 20files, miles
What it means
- nounvenous swelling external or internal to the anal sphincter
- nouna large number or amount
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ay1 l z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
27 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aisles
- compiles
- crocodiles
- exiles
- files
- gentiles
- isles
- lifestyles
- miles
- profiles
- reconciles
- riles
- smiles
- stockpiles
- styles
- textiles
- tiles
- turnstiles
- whiles
- percentiles
- rials
- stiles
- wiles
- biles
Its letters, rearranged
5 other words use exactly these letters: plies, spiel, speil, spile, slipe.
One letter away
- files
- miles
- pales
- pikes
- piled
- pills
- pines
- pipes
- poles
- riles
- tiles
- pules
- wiles
- biles
- pilea
- pilei
- pilis
- pilus
- pixes
- peles
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.