buses
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, buses sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 9bases, bused
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and buses is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is bus — a vehicle carrying many passengers; used for public transport. 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 ah1 s ih0 z — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
5 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- furnaces
- fusses
- minibuses
- pluses
- trusses
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.