mates
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, mates sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 5meats, steam
- One letter away
- 29dates, fates
What it means
- nouna pair of people who live together
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as m 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
5 other words use exactly these letters: meats, steam, tames, teams, satem.
One letter away
- dates
- fates
- gates
- hates
- maces
- makes
- males
- manes
- mares
- mated
- mazes
- metes
- mites
- mutes
- pates
- rates
- bates
- mages
- mater
- matey
- maxes
- motes
- sates
- cates
- mabes
- nates
- maths
- matts
- tates
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.