spays

The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, spays sits in the everyday tier.

Letters

58,636 words share the length

Syllables

—not in the pronouncing dictionary

Anagrams

0none in this dictionary

One letter away

8slays, spans

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and spays is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is spay — remove the ovaries of. The rule that found it is on the sources page; nothing here claims a grammatical relation.

Not one of the 50,962 words of ours that the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary covers, so this page prints no syllable count, no stress and no rhymes for it.

No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.

• slays
• spans
• spars
• spats
• stays
• sways
• shays
• spaes

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

• 5 letter words8,636
• Starts S18,988
• Starts SP1,704
• Ends S
• 5 letters starting S

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.