bytes
The filled squares are the vowel — 1 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, bytes sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 5bites, bates
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and bytes is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is byte — a sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information. 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 ay1 t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
82 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- appetites
- bites
- cites
- copyrights
- delights
- excites
- extradites
- fights
- flashlights
- flights
- floodlights
- footlights
- headlights
- heights
- highlights
- ignites
- incites
- insights
- invites
- kilobytes
- kites
- knights
- lights
- megabytes
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- bites
- bates
- byres
- kytes
- wytes
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.