gees
The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 4 letters. In the size-ranked list, gees 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
- 24bees, fees
What it means
Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and gees is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is gee — a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity; used to indicate the force to which a body is subjected when it is accelerated. 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 jh iy1 s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.
31 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.
- apiece
- caprice
- cease
- centerpiece
- crease
- decrease
- fleece
- geese
- grease
- increase
- lease
- masterpiece
- mouthpiece
- niece
- obese
- peace
- piece
- police
- release
- syntheses
- altarpiece
- cerise
- crosspiece
- decease
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.