apes
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, apes sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4peas, apse
- One letter away
- 14aces, ages
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and apes is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is ape — any of various primates with short tails or no tail at all. 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 ey1 p s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
13 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: peas, apse, pase, spae.
One letter away
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.