tides
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, tides sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 6diets, edits
- One letter away
- 13aides, bides
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and tides is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is tide — the periodic rise and fall of the sea level under the gravitational pull of the moon. 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 ay1 d z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
57 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abides
- asides
- besides
- brides
- chides
- coincides
- collides
- confides
- decides
- derides
- divides
- fungicides
- genocides
- glides
- guides
- hides
- hillsides
- homicides
- insecticides
- insides
- landslides
- outsides
- overrides
- oxides
Its letters, rearranged
6 other words use exactly these letters: diets, edits, sited, deist, dites, stied.
One letter away
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.