fakes
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, fakes 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
- 23bakes, cakes
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and fakes is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is fake — fraudulent; having a misleading appearance. 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 f 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
- bakes
- brakes
- breaks
- cakes
- earthquakes
- flakes
- handshakes
- headaches
- heartbreaks
- keepsakes
- lakes
- makes
- mistakes
- namesakes
- outbreaks
- overtakes
- pancakes
- quakes
- rakes
- rattlesnakes
- sakes
- shakes
- snakes
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 5 letters.
One letter away
- bakes
- cakes
- faces
- fades
- faked
- fares
- fates
- fazes
- lakes
- makes
- rakes
- sakes
- takes
- wakes
- faker
- faves
- faxes
- hakes
- fakey
- fames
- fanes
- fykes
- jakes
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.