bakes
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, bakes sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1beaks
- One letter away
- 19babes, baked
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and bakes is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is bake — cook and make edible by putting in a hot oven. 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 b 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
- brakes
- breaks
- cakes
- earthquakes
- fakes
- flakes
- handshakes
- headaches
- heartbreaks
- keepsakes
- lakes
- makes
- mistakes
- namesakes
- outbreaks
- overtakes
- pancakes
- quakes
- rakes
- rattlesnakes
- sakes
- shakes
- snakes
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: beaks.
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.