sales
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, sales sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2seals, lases
- One letter away
- 24bales, gales
What it means
- nounincome (at invoice values) received for goods and services over some given period of time
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as s ey1 l z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
57 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ails
- ales
- assails
- bails
- bales
- cocktails
- curtails
- derails
- details
- entails
- fails
- females
- fingernails
- gales
- hails
- hales
- handrails
- impales
- jails
- mails
- males
- monorails
- nails
- pails
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: seals, lases.
One letter away
- bales
- gales
- hales
- males
- pales
- safes
- sages
- sakes
- salts
- saves
- soles
- tales
- dales
- sates
- saxes
- vales
- wales
- kales
- rales
- sades
- salep
- salps
- sabes
- sanes
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.