bodes
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, bodes sits in the everyday tier.
- Letters
- 58,636 words share the length
- Syllables
- 1stress on the first
- Anagrams
- 0none in this dictionary
- One letter away
- 10bides, boded
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and bodes is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is bod — alternative names for the body of a human being. 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 ow1 d z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
36 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- codes
- corrodes
- decodes
- episodes
- erodes
- explodes
- loads
- modes
- nodes
- odes
- overloads
- railroads
- roads
- toads
- unloads
- anodes
- boatloads
- busloads
- carloads
- caseloads
- cathodes
- crossroads
- diodes
- downloads
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
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.