foes
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, foes 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
- 16does, fees
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and foes is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is foe — an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force). 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 ow1 z — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
139 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- arose
- bestows
- blows
- boroughs
- bulldoze
- bungalows
- cameos
- cargoes
- chose
- commandos
- compose
- crossbows
- crows
- decompose
- disclose
- dispose
- dominoes
- doze
- elbows
- embryos
- enclose
- expose
- falsettos
- flows
Its letters, rearranged
No other word in this dictionary uses exactly these 4 letters.
One letter away
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.