spies
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, spies sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1sipes
- One letter away
- 13shies, skies
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and spies is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is spy — (military) a secret agent hired by a state to obtain information about its enemies or by a business to obtain industrial secrets from competitors. 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 p ay1 z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
358 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
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- amplifies
- analyze
- antagonize
- apologize
- applies
- arise
- authorize
- ayes
- baptize
- belies
- butterflies
- buys
- capitalize
- capsize
- categorize
- centralize
- certifies
- characterize
- chastise
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: sipes.
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.