hates

The filled squares are the 2 vowels — 2 of 5 letters. In the size-ranked list, hates sits in the everyday tier.

Letters
58,636 words share the length
Syllables
1stress on the first
Anagrams
3haste, heats
One letter away
21dates, fates

What it means

Open English WordNet defines lemmas, and hates is not one of them. The nearest lemma it does define is hat — headdress that protects the head from bad weather; has shaped crown and usually a brim. 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 hh ey1 t s — one syllable, the stress on syllable 1.

281 words share everything from the last stressed vowel on — that is what counts as a rhyme here.

Its letters, rearranged

3 other words use exactly these letters: haste, heats, haets.

The whole set on one page.

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.