bikes
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, bikes sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 1kibes
- One letter away
- 19bakes, bides
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and bikes is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is bike — a motor vehicle with two wheels and a strong frame. 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 ay1 k s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
16 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- dikes
- dislikes
- dykes
- hikes
- hitchhikes
- likes
- mikes
- pikes
- spikes
- strikes
- turnpikes
- motorbikes
- sykes
- yikes
- sikes
- tikes
Its letters, rearranged
One other word use exactly these letters: kibes.
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.