babes
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, babes sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1abbes
- One letter away
- 13bakes, bales
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and babes is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is babe — a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk. 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 b ey1 b z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
Nothing in the pronouncing dictionary rhymes with it.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: abbes.
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.