coves
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, coves sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1voces
- One letter away
- 21caves, codes
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and coves is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is cove — a small inlet. 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 k ow1 v z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
6 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- alcoves
- cloves
- droves
- groves
- loaves
- stoves
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: voces.
One letter away
- caves
- codes
- cokes
- comes
- cones
- copes
- cores
- cover
- covet
- doves
- loves
- moves
- cotes
- coven
- covey
- coxes
- roves
- coles
- coses
- coved
- cozes
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.