bees
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, bees sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 43,903 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 25beds, beef
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and bees is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is be — have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun). 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 iy1 z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
152 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- abilities
- absentees
- agrees
- analyses
- antifreeze
- apologies
- apostrophes
- appease
- appendices
- appointees
- binaries
- breeze
- bumblebees
- cheese
- companies
- decrees
- degrees
- devotees
- diocese
- dioceses
- disagrees
- disease
- displease
- ease
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
- beds
- beef
- been
- beer
- beet
- begs
- bets
- byes
- fees
- gees
- sees
- tees
- wees
- beep
- beys
- lees
- pees
- bels
- bens
- cees
- dees
- rees
- vees
- zees
- jees
Same length, one position changed. <1% of the 3,903 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.