rises
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, rises sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1sires
- One letter away
- 20rices, rides
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and rises is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is rise — a growth in strength or number or importance. 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 r ay1 z ah0 z — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
20 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- arises
- characterizes
- comprises
- economizes
- emphasizes
- exercises
- galvanizes
- guises
- hypnotizes
- improvises
- minimizes
- patronizes
- prizes
- recognizes
- sizes
- specializes
- stabilizes
- polymerizes
- reanalyzes
- sodomizes
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: sires.
One letter away
- rices
- rides
- riles
- risen
- riser
- risks
- rites
- roses
- ruses
- vises
- wises
- rimes
- rives
- sises
- rases
- ribes
- bises
- mises
- ripes
- risus
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.