roles
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, roles sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4loser, lores
- One letter away
- 21doles, holes
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and roles is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is role — the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group. 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 ow1 l z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
51 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bowls
- buttonholes
- charcoals
- coals
- consoles
- controls
- doles
- enrolls
- extols
- flagpoles
- goals
- holes
- keyholes
- loopholes
- moles
- paroles
- patrols
- payrolls
- poles
- polls
- potholes
- rolls
- scrolls
- shoals
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: loser, lores, orles, sorel.
One letter away
- doles
- holes
- moles
- poles
- riles
- robes
- rolls
- ropes
- roses
- rules
- soles
- boles
- roues
- roves
- voles
- coles
- rales
- rolfs
- rotes
- toles
- joles
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.