poems

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, poems sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

2stress on the first

Anagrams

2mopes, pomes

One letter away

1poets

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and poems is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is poem — a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as p ow1 ah0 m z — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.

Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.

2 other words use exactly these letters: mopes, pomes.

The whole set on one page.

• poets

Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 8,636 words this long are a neighbour.

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts P14,566
• Starts PO1,866
• Ends S
• 5 letters starting P

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.