wipes
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, wipes sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1swipe
- One letter away
- 15pipes, wines
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and wipes is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is wipe — the act of rubbing or wiping. 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 ay1 p s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
17 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- gripes
- pipes
- prototypes
- snipes
- stereotypes
- stripes
- swipes
- types
- archetypes
- bagpipes
- blowpipes
- genotypes
- hypes
- pinstripes
- phenotypes
- stipes
- sipes
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: swipe.
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.