wakes
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, wakes sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 2askew, wekas
- One letter away
- 21bakes, cakes
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and wakes is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is wake — the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event). 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 w 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
2 other words use exactly these letters: askew, wekas.
One letter away
- bakes
- cakes
- fakes
- lakes
- makes
- rakes
- sakes
- takes
- wades
- wages
- waked
- waken
- wanes
- waves
- waxes
- hakes
- wales
- wares
- jakes
- waker
- wames
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.