paces
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, paces sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 3capes, space
- One letter away
- 20faces, laces
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and paces is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is pace — the rate of moving (especially walking or running). 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 p ey1 s ih0 z — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
20 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aces
- atlases
- birthplaces
- bookcases
- briefcases
- databases
- displaces
- embraces
- erases
- graces
- interfaces
- marketplaces
- misplaces
- replaces
- showcases
- staircases
- suitcases
- outpaces
- workplaces
- airspaces
Its letters, rearranged
3 other words use exactly these letters: capes, space, scape.
One letter away
- faces
- laces
- maces
- paced
- packs
- pacts
- pages
- pales
- panes
- pares
- pates
- paves
- races
- daces
- pacer
- pacas
- pases
- paxes
- puces
- taces
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.