takes
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, takes sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 4skate, stake
- One letter away
- 24bakes, cakes
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and takes is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is take — the income or profit arising from such transactions as the sale of land or other property. 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 t ey1 k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
40 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- aches
- bakes
- brakes
- breaks
- cakes
- earthquakes
- fakes
- flakes
- handshakes
- headaches
- heartbreaks
- keepsakes
- lakes
- makes
- mistakes
- namesakes
- outbreaks
- overtakes
- pancakes
- quakes
- rakes
- rattlesnakes
- sakes
- shakes
Its letters, rearranged
4 other words use exactly these letters: skate, stake, steak, teaks.
One letter away
- bakes
- cakes
- fakes
- lakes
- makes
- rakes
- sakes
- taken
- tales
- tames
- tapes
- taxes
- wakes
- hakes
- taker
- tares
- tokes
- tykes
- jakes
- tabes
- taces
- tajes
- tates
- tikes
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.