rates
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, rates sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4stare, tears
- One letter away
- 28dates, fates
What it means
- nouna local tax on property
How it sounds
The CMU Pronouncing Dictionary reads it as r 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
4 other words use exactly these letters: stare, tears, aster, tares.
One letter away
- dates
- fates
- gates
- hates
- mates
- pates
- races
- rages
- rakes
- rapes
- rares
- rated
- raves
- razes
- rites
- bates
- rater
- sates
- cates
- nates
- rajes
- rales
- rases
- ratel
- raxes
- rotes
- ratos
- 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.