bake
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, bake sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1beak
- One letter away
- 18babe, bale
What it means
- verbcook and make edible by putting in a hot oven
- verbprepare with dry heat in an oven
- verbheat by a natural force
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as b ey1 k — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
60 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ache
- awake
- brake
- break
- cake
- daybreak
- earthquake
- fake
- flake
- forsake
- handshake
- headache
- heartache
- heartbreak
- intake
- keepsake
- lake
- make
- mistake
- namesake
- opaque
- outbreak
- overtake
- pancake
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: beak.
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.