sizes
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, sizes sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 13sides, sires
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and sizes is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is size — (used in combination) sized. 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 s 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
- rises
- specializes
- stabilizes
- polymerizes
- reanalyzes
- sodomizes
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
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.