bases
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, bases sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 2stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1sabes
- One letter away
- 21babes, bakes
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and bases is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is base — serving as or forming a base. 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 s ah0 z — 2 syllables, the stress on syllable 1.
13 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: sabes.
One letter away
- babes
- bakes
- bales
- bares
- based
- baser
- basis
- basks
- buses
- cases
- eases
- gases
- oases
- vases
- banes
- bates
- basts
- lases
- pases
- rases
- bises
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.