tails
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, tails sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2litas, alist
- One letter away
- 15bails, fails
What it means
- nounformalwear consisting of full evening dress for men
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as t 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: litas, alist.
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.