tames
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, tames sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 5mates, meats
- One letter away
- 24dames, games
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and tames is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is tam — a woolen cap of Scottish origin. 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 m z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
21 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- acclaims
- aims
- blames
- claims
- dames
- disclaims
- exclaims
- flames
- frames
- games
- inflames
- maims
- mainframes
- names
- nicknames
- proclaims
- shames
- surnames
- counterclaims
- airframes
- hames
Its letters, rearranged
5 other words use exactly these letters: mates, meats, steam, teams, satem.
One letter away
- dames
- games
- lames
- names
- takes
- tales
- tamed
- tamer
- tapes
- taxes
- times
- tomes
- tamps
- tares
- fames
- hames
- kames
- tabes
- taces
- tajes
- tamis
- wames
- cames
- 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.