pates
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, pates sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 6paste, spate
- One letter away
- 23dates, fates
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and pates is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is pat — having only superficial plausibility. 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 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
6 other words use exactly these letters: paste, spate, tapes, septa, peats, tepas.
One letter away
- dates
- fates
- gates
- hates
- mates
- paces
- pages
- pales
- panes
- pares
- paths
- paves
- rates
- bates
- sates
- cates
- nates
- pases
- pated
- paten
- pater
- paxes
- 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.