dikes
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, dikes sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1skied
- One letter away
- 20bikes, dices
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and dikes is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is dike — (slang) offensive term for a lesbian who is noticeably masculine. 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 d ay1 k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
16 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- bikes
- dislikes
- dykes
- hikes
- hitchhikes
- likes
- mikes
- pikes
- spikes
- strikes
- turnpikes
- motorbikes
- sykes
- yikes
- sikes
- tikes
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: skied.
One letter away
- bikes
- dices
- diked
- dimes
- dines
- dives
- dukes
- dykes
- hikes
- likes
- mikes
- pikes
- kikes
- yikes
- dekes
- diker
- dites
- sikes
- dikey
- tikes
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.