obeys
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, obeys sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the second
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 0none in this dictionary
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and obeys is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is obey — be obedient to. 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 ow0 b ey1 z — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 2.
155 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- ablaze
- allays
- always
- amaze
- appraise
- arrays
- ashtrays
- ballets
- bays
- betrays
- birthdays
- blase
- blaze
- bouquets
- braise
- byways
- cabarets
- cafes
- castaways
- causeways
- chalets
- cliches
- communiques
- conveys
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
No word in this dictionary differs from it by exactly one letter.
Same length, one position changed.
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.