gates
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, gates sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2stage, getas
- One letter away
- 18dates, fates
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and gates is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is gat — a gangster's pistol. 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 g ey1 t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
281 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abates
- abbreviates
- abdicates
- accelerates
- accentuates
- accommodates
- accumulates
- activates
- adulterates
- aggravates
- alienates
- allocates
- alternates
- amalgamates
- anticipates
- appreciates
- appropriates
- arbitrates
- asphyxiates
- authenticates
- automates
- awaits
- baits
- calculates
Its letters, rearranged
2 other words use exactly these letters: stage, getas.
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.